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- MA G DA RA ? (2 replies)
- Another Panabas (3 replies)
- Small Indonesian knife. (3 replies)
- Interesting East or Southern African(???) spear-sword (2 replies)
- Kachin style dha/dao (4 replies)
- Bonifacio knife? (6 replies)
- Syrian(?) Kindjal (5 replies)
- Need some help with translation of Djawi on a Rencong (6 replies)
- Massive Piha Kaetta with figurine hilt (0 replies)
- Mystery knife for comment and id (7 replies)
- Three Boa's (8 replies)
- van Gogh Zeybek yatagan translation assistance (14 replies)
- Pistol Identification (6 replies)
- Ethiopian Shield - request for translation from Italian (11 replies)
- Unusual Palmwood Spears (2 replies)
- Help identifying old spearhead (2 replies)
- club (2 replies)
- Two sikin panjang enter my collection (41 replies)
- Parang Ilang (?) same auction (0 replies)
- Beautiful karit (0 replies)
- Moro Kris sold yesterday (10 replies)
- Questions regarding this origin of this grip construction on Afghan swords (1 replies)
- Exceptional Philippine weapons auctioned in Spain (32 replies)
- A Tombak For ID (4 replies)
- A Sword/Sabre To Identify (8 replies)
- Iraqi khanjar? (3 replies)
- Help with Identification (4 replies)
- Greek Translation Requested (2 replies)
- Korean Eunjangdo (8 replies)
- "Early" Moro kris (31 replies)
- Where is this Shield from? (9 replies)
- New pedang lurus enter the collection soon (9 replies)
- Crude Tanto from my first post (3 replies)
- Very unusual presentation kris/keris—Malay? (7 replies)
- Moro Kris video (4 replies)
- Kipinga (9 replies)
- Pesh-kabz Translation (5 replies)
- My first Nimcha (14 replies)
- ring shaped pommel (2 replies)
- Two dha, Birmese and Laotian Hmong Montagnard? (15 replies)
- Persian qama ? (5 replies)
- Colonial cosh swagger stick (9 replies)
- Two Sudanese shields (3 replies)
- Afghan choora on steroids (2 replies)
- Are there any good English language books on Caucasian arms and armor? (17 replies)
- Upper class Datu ivory, swassa, and silver barong (20 replies)
- Someone bought this as? (11 replies)
- Age of an tibetan short sword (3 replies)
- Two Fang swords. (3 replies)
- Heiho that's been around (6 replies)
- Old persian sword (11 replies)
- Janus-headed, large-bladed African knife (5 replies)
- Flissa sword without ornement , origin and age ? (5 replies)
- Katar (9 replies)
- Help with a couple old metallic arrow points (3 replies)
- An unusual 'dha' (8 replies)
- Help to read inscirptions on a choora blade (11 replies)
- Very old Visayan kris (33 replies)
- Ceremonial sword, Hemba/Luba, D.R. Congo (17 replies)
- Why does this finely made khyber knife have an incomplete fuller? (3 replies)
- New Blades For Identification (8 replies)
- Why do some pulwars and Tulwars have sloppily and roughy cut fullers? (3 replies)
- Albino horn hilted pira (6 replies)
- New shamshir: hoping for a diamond in the rough. (19 replies)
- Islamic barrel Blunderbuss (0 replies)
- Small car boot sale knife (10 replies)
- Restored shamshir (4 replies)
- Miquelet lock (0 replies)
- Throwing spear, Sudan? (10 replies)
- Marked Sundanese Pisau Raut: Galuh-Pajajaran? (9 replies)
- A Batak Piso? (7 replies)
- African Spears (4 replies)
- Short sword, Fur, Sudan (3 replies)
- Lead / grease / flint container (2 replies)
- Tombak For ID (3 replies)
- A Kerambit Perhaps? (3 replies)
- Extreme Plamenko? (9 replies)
- Seeking information about crossbow use in Philippines (0 replies)
- Interesting Philippine Sword (5 replies)
- Another Blade For ID Please (2 replies)
- Billao (4 replies)
- Batak or Dayak Knife? (2 replies)
- Luristan II (0 replies)
- Luristan I (1 replies)
- Keris, inscription, rough age. (12 replies)
- Another Malaysia Badik or Sewar? (6 replies)
- An interesting african knife with inscription (6 replies)
- A Jambiah Perhaps? (3 replies)
- Wedung from Bali? (11 replies)
- Please help id this slasher (3 replies)
- Moro Spearhead, but from what Battle? (21 replies)
- Barung with chopmark/stamp (10 replies)
- Sulawesi Badik? (8 replies)
- A pair of Africa found swords (7 replies)
- Help identifying Qajar Kindjal (8 replies)
- Janissar Weapons (0 replies)
- Old Yatagan (11 replies)
- Yemen Jambiya Khanjar Dagger Horn?? (4 replies)
- Possible Armenian sword for comments (9 replies)
- Makers mark on 19th century 'star and comet' Kaskara blade (18 replies)
- Short Sword Tubu (6 replies)
- Takouba with five fullers (26 replies)
- Help with Armenian (Ottoman) Kindjal/Khanjal/Qama (0 replies)
- Three new Philippines knives including an Apalit bolo (5 replies)
- Bronze Age socketed axe head mould (3 replies)
- Tumbuk Lada or Sewar (9 replies)
- The Takouba Sword. (31 replies)
- An old Ginunting (3 replies)
- Sikh kirpan or other origin ? (2 replies)
- Brass tulwar hilt for comment please (7 replies)
- Hmong knife to share (1 replies)
- Zeytun Acari Acquired (4 replies)
- Hilt Identification (22 replies)
- Indian Sword to Share (9 replies)
- Mechanical Damascus Koumya Blade (20 replies)
- Help for translation of inscription in Greek. (3 replies)
- Shamshir ,But From Where? (8 replies)
- Help, anyone familiar with such a knife? (7 replies)
- Restoration of the scabbard of a Caucasian dagger (1 replies)
- Pesh-kabz (3 replies)
- Weapons of Moroland plaque (8 replies)
- Properties Of Wootz (19 replies)
- Moro kris for comment (9 replies)
- Makers Mark (7 replies)
- Greek Kariophili dated 1846 (4 replies)
- kris brass (3 replies)
- A club for identification (8 replies)
- Identifying/Conserving a Kaskara from the late 60s or earlier (10 replies)
- shipping ex USA .... (21 replies)
- Short sword West Africa (19 replies)
- Unknown dagger for ID and comment (9 replies)
- Borneo Kota Belud golok or parang? (1 replies)
- Belatu/Balato from South Nias (11 replies)
- Small bichaq for translation & comments (3 replies)
- Did The Ottomans ever use guardless sabres? (3 replies)
- Anglo Indian sword - ID needed! (15 replies)
- Strange knife (5 replies)
- Pacific Islander knife? (6 replies)
- Long Arm Miquelet-c1800-All Steel Tanchika (7 replies)
- Question(s) on the use of Chassepot/yataghan bayonets (3 replies)
- Mark and missing metal on a karabella type of sword (2 replies)
- Similarities in design between Afghan axes and Musandam/Jerrs axes (3 replies)
- Early 20th century Greek knife for translation (3 replies)
- Takouba with a forte. (12 replies)
- Unusual sabers from West Africa (2 replies)
- Khanjar (6 replies)
- Jafle jambiya (3 replies)
- Thoughts on this crude spear? (2 replies)
- A very, very old Moro kris (33 replies)
- Need help with identifying Moroccan Koummya (18 replies)
- Help ID'ing African Dagger (3 replies)
- Atlatl from where? (1 replies)
- African knife (7 replies)
- kris tulid (1 replies)
- Tabak Batangas 2 (1 replies)
- Tabak Batangas (0 replies)
- Short Sword ID Requested (7 replies)
- Morrocan (?) powder flask (2 replies)
- short unknown club (3 replies)
- Can we call them Genoui daggers ? (8 replies)
- Rather nice add on to my sewar collection (17 replies)
- Translation please (2 replies)
- Illegal balisong (21 replies)
- thouma jambiya for comment (6 replies)
- Does anyone else have a Shona Knife This Large (5 replies)
- Persian Shamshir fullering techniques and their Afghan imitations (6 replies)
- Interesting old fighter - Philippines? (2 replies)
- Indonesian spear with brass blade (30 replies)
- African Spear (21 replies)
- Mystery sword - tourist/souvenir piece? (9 replies)
- Presumed Wedung with Figural Hilt (6 replies)
- Impressions of the book Arms and armor in the khanates of Central Asia (6 replies)
- Aluminum hilt blade (4 replies)
- Two sickle knives from India (?) for identification (5 replies)
- Two Bagobo swords for repatriation ... (11 replies)
- Unknown spearheads (5 replies)
- Strange repair to shamshir cross guard - Advice needed (4 replies)
- Afghan Tabarzin (20 replies)
- Small knife for ID (10 replies)
- Unusual African spear head/ring axe combo (5 replies)
- Help to Decipher Islamic scrip of Yataghans (2 replies)
- Balkan Miquelet-Lock Rifle (Arnautka)? (3 replies)
- Genoui/s'boula? (4 replies)
- Old Pantar dance shield for sharing (6 replies)
- budjak mindanao (4 replies)
- Shona Bakatwa (2 replies)
- New arrivals (4 replies)
- Recent technical issues (5 replies)
- another wild card, Tibetan I think comments and ID help appreciated. (7 replies)
- Unknown Club (7 replies)
- Navaja Toledo knife (1 replies)
- Horn-tipped spear for comment and discussion (4 replies)
- Amazing studded and wired Knobkerrie (12 replies)
- Group of small African knives for comments (13 replies)
- Middle Asian (?) dagger for identification (5 replies)
- Another amalgamation sword your taughts (2 replies)
- Certain “Indian” swords and their relation to the Afghan Shashkas (4 replies)
- Mandau for identification (22 replies)
- Old knife from period of the Anglo-Zulu Wars (13 replies)
- Bronze spear head African? (4 replies)
- Nice little Sumatran (?) dagger for sharing & comment (12 replies)
- Origin of the term "Garab." (1 replies)
- Remarkable tulwar with unusual provenance (8 replies)
- Help with translation of the Ottoman yatagan, 18th century. (13 replies)
- Another Afar gile (25 replies)
- Dragon handled walking stick (2 replies)
- Rencong (24 replies)
- Kukri from Birmingham (UK) antique arms fair. (19 replies)
- Mandingo or not. (1 replies)
- Another Machete. (5 replies)
- A new to me Sabiki or Dharia. (6 replies)
- Sword Cane / Swagger Stick? (14 replies)
- Yemeni matchlock (9 replies)
- Indian Wootz Shamshir with antler hilt? (4 replies)
- Articles On Arab Arms (0 replies)
- Armenian Yatagan with Extreme Curve (9 replies)
- WW2-era Philippine blade: Pangasinan talunasan (2 replies)
- Rare Korean eunjangdo (3 replies)
- Please show your examples of ethnographic double knives (21 replies)
- Horseshoe(?) markings on takouba/aljuinar blade (0 replies)
- Help with identifying heavy blade short sword (6 replies)
- A Simple Question About Philippine Weapons (2 replies)
- New bought Pedang for comment and opinions. (8 replies)
- Indo-persian axe with inerteed steel. (2 replies)
- Luzon short sword, looking for more information please (2 replies)
- TRUELOVE Bowie (0 replies)
- Fully wire-wrapped Zulu Knobkerrie (5 replies)
- An unusual African knife was a big surprise at auction (13 replies)
- Arab Cutlasses of the Pirate Coast (46 replies)
- Pedang from java (?) (6 replies)
- Twin Burmese knives (4 replies)
- Unusual Nigerian knife (4 replies)
- Old Nigerian ?? Takouba (18 replies)
- Seme to clean up. (5 replies)
- Strange Shield for Discussion (26 replies)
- An amalgmation of Europe and Asia, Shamshir (12 replies)
- Markings on Ottoman Sabre (12 replies)
- Mandara (???) dagger (9 replies)
- Scandanavian/finnish pair (13 replies)
- Muslem knife for ID please (12 replies)
- Need help to identify gunang style knife (4 replies)
- Nice silver yemeni jambiya sheath (3 replies)
- A result of ivory regulations ??? (23 replies)
- Kindjal Arabic(?) translation help (2 replies)
- Two African knives (15 replies)
- kris needs information (1 replies)
- Yatagan markings (11 replies)
- Ottoman karabela around year 1650-1700 or? (5 replies)
- Gigantic Kindjals (0 replies)
- Parang Nabur (5 replies)
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