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it's coming to stay with me. vendor esst. it from 1850-1899.
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it arrived today, heavy at 680 grams (1.5 lb.), haft length 62 cm long by 2 cm. diameter.. blade is 20 cm. top point to bottom one. spike is 10 cm. blade and spike are sharp. nice patina. silver koftgari a bit worn in places. nice.
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IT LOOKS LIKE A NICE EXAMPLE OF THE FORM.
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handling it i wonder if there may have once been some sort of cord, leather, or wire wrapping on the haft to improve the grip, which has come off, or is it just that my hands are bigger than theirs?
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Yes, most but not all Indians have a finer bone structure that the Europeans, you only need to take a tulwar or a katar in your hand to realise this.
Nice axe by the way :-). Jens |
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Small handed people metal wrap at the bottom of the haft is the grip ,the wood haft would have been most likely covered in a velvet like cloth.Nice axe you have.Pictured similar example all steel
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estcrh I cant be sure where my axe is from it could be a sudan copy of indo Persian? Posted another axe that is similar in construction to Krockew axe.Posted the two war hammers.
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Salaams kronckew, Please have a look at http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...jewish+dervish These axes were also carried about by wandering Dervish Sufi in and before the 1920s in Persia. Amazingly they are shown in a reference at http://kavvanah.wordpress.com/2013/...dervishes-1922/ pictured with Jewish members of that group amalgamating Jewish and Muslim concepts into their traditions. The axe in this case said to have been carried as a defensive weapon in the right hand to ward off wild animals etc... and as part of their regalia.. Regards, Ibrahiim al Balooshi. |
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very interesting - especially the 1st one,looks much like my naked one. the area just below the head and just above the butt have a covering - leather? the central haft section looks like it has yet another thin cover of some type. the 2nd seems to have a much thicker set of clothes.
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Here is one more Sudanese axe of the same type. Now if this is actually an Indian style axe how is it that the Sudanese came to use the same style? These axe could have been introduced in the early 1880s when Indian troops in the service of England helped the Khedive of Egypt regain control of Egypt after a military coup. Quote:
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