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- Dagger ID required (25 replies)
- Visayan knife? (2 replies)
- TUREG WEST AFRICA ODDITY (4 replies)
- New Bolo (23 replies)
- Lulua River + weapons (6 replies)
- Help in terminology in other languages (11 replies)
- Please help translate this (Arabic?) inscription (5 replies)
- NZ Maori connection treen rack mystery (25 replies)
- Shamshir Inscription Translation. PLease help. (16 replies)
- Fake Yataghans (10 replies)
- Help! I have a bad infection, again a kris! (23 replies)
- Questions about a Moro Kris (3 replies)
- VERY Unusual Marks on a Kaskara (15 replies)
- Strange Shamshir in Wootz Shocker! (pictures) (9 replies)
- Isneg Axe (10 replies)
- chilean knives (?) (6 replies)
- Small Philippine Knife (10 replies)
- Interesting Wootz Tulwar for comment (18 replies)
- Pair of Moro Barong (22 replies)
- Some of my Aceh favorites :) (25 replies)
- Real "ninja" sword, or modern invention? (18 replies)
- Antic or repro Chinese dagger (0 replies)
- Crusiform bladed Dagger E Bay (41 replies)
- Couple of Dha, Couple of questions (3 replies)
- CAMBODIAN KNIFE for COMMENT (14 replies)
- Kris/Sundang just finished on ebay. (24 replies)
- Yataghan Needing Translation (Ivory-Coral) (19 replies)
- Ceremonial "knives" (?), for comment (4 replies)
- Old postcard with two dancers/warriors.... (23 replies)
- Indo persian sword for comment (2 replies)
- Vere daggers ? (pls help with ID) (4 replies)
- Help with unknown item! (9 replies)
- Is this an old axe? Advice appreciated. (13 replies)
- Sudan Sword (Kaskara) and Knife Paper (10 replies)
- Ethiopian dagger?? (2 replies)
- Translation please, perhaps our Keris friends can help? (0 replies)
- Dagger: Russian or ...what??? (2 replies)
- Khanda For Comment (13 replies)
- Kindjal with an interesting maker's mark. (0 replies)
- Visayan suspension (11 replies)
- Scarification knives ? (6 replies)
- New Moro kris (30 replies)
- 2 Yatagan for opinion (7 replies)
- Ga'anda regalia (10 replies)
- New book: 'Iron Ancestors, Kris Sajen, Kris Majapahit and related Objects' (1 replies)
- Blunderbuss etching identification query (3 replies)
- Interesting takouba for discussion (11 replies)
- Ottoman Turkish inscription: Need single word translated (22 replies)
- Dagger ID and Arabic ? Translation request (7 replies)
- Can someone translate this shamshir blade inscription? (0 replies)
- Brass dots on a blade?? (21 replies)
- Monstrous Kukri for comment (8 replies)
- Root Ball headed club...is it African ?? (6 replies)
- Expensive Indian Khanjar (8 replies)
- Marttiini Combat Knife (0 replies)
- Chillanum for comment (4 replies)
- A box of swords and a shield (7 replies)
- Mutilated Kaskara on Ebay (14 replies)
- Tell tale signs of fake? (6 replies)
- Yataghan signature translation (9 replies)
- SPEARS FOR I.D (6 replies)
- Philippine Dagger (26 replies)
- Another Dayak Sword (16 replies)
- Information about dagger (5 replies)
- yemeni jambiya lore and musings (1 replies)
- Ivory Hilt Trumbash Knife (12 replies)
- 1947 Movie about Dayak (2 replies)
- Saber marked "IEC 333" on one side, "india" on the other, with Arabic writing (0 replies)
- A Very Nice Dagger (34 replies)
- Interesting wootz tulwar for comments (23 replies)
- silver scabbard (3 replies)
- AsadAllah wootz persian sword (3 replies)
- short kindjal for comment (3 replies)
- Yataghan Spot the Difference (12 replies)
- Another Tibetian Dagger (10 replies)
- Long swords from Nigerian/Cameroonian borderland (Vere/Namdchi ?) (7 replies)
- Burma Naval Dha?? (16 replies)
- Ulas a weekly sight? (12 replies)
- Twistcore Kindjal for comments. (22 replies)
- A Balkan Knife (6 replies)
- 18th/19thC Gaucho Knife. (10 replies)
- European blade on Ethiopian gurade (3 replies)
- The correct name (5 replies)
- Croco Kaskara (11 replies)
- Help needed to attribute Panabas (1 replies)
- Do Parang Naburs have laminated blades? (5 replies)
- Kindjal with star pattern twistcore pictures needed (10 replies)
- ID help needed on Sumatra sword (5 replies)
- US Bayonet ID Help (4 replies)
- Weighing in...collecting from other cultures... (22 replies)
- A pair of Dadiya sickle knives (6 replies)
- Beautiful sword from Philippines (12 replies)
- Storage advice needed (18 replies)
- Interesting Yunnan Dagger (21 replies)
- Another wootz katar for comment (1 replies)
- New Moro kris (19 replies)
- Help id a spear head, please. (5 replies)
- African arm daggers for comment (0 replies)
- Malaita club. (10 replies)
- Quite a price for a Kattara (6 replies)
- Arabic numerals writing: translation needed (2 replies)
- Dagger display ideas :( (35 replies)
- What Is This (25 replies)
- Kalinga Head Ax question (10 replies)
- Gladiators exhibit at Rome's Colosseum (9 replies)
- Spear Heads ID Please (3 replies)
- Bichwa No Chilanum Not! (5 replies)
- presentation & Wootz katar (7 replies)
- chromolithograph.. (6 replies)
- Hat or Helmet Identification Help Needed (5 replies)
- Spanish Punal for a lady? (30 replies)
- Gaucho knife for ID please: Argentine 'La Movediza' (21 replies)
- Help Needed With Koumaya's Maker's Mark Identification (11 replies)
- assegai, mask and shield for comment (9 replies)
- What kind of sword is this #3 (3 replies)
- FINE SWORD, INDONESIA OR MALAYSIAN ? (29 replies)
- Taiaha, finally!!! (15 replies)
- Ethiopean shield on KIT website (2 replies)
- Change in Forums Privacy Policy (0 replies)
- Mughal Rocketry (2 replies)
- Afgan knife (5 replies)
- What kind of sword is this #1 (1 replies)
- Kliau (3 replies)
- Wire work axe (16 replies)
- Parang Nabur (6 replies)
- Silver inlayed 19thC Mexican Spur with Stars/Stripes? (27 replies)
- Kastane for comment (0 replies)
- Opinion and translation. (5 replies)
- Yatağan Sword and Knifesmithing Festival (9 replies)
- Identifying two Items- Axe + Dagger (3 replies)
- Moro Kris Swassa and Silver (2 replies)
- Zulu wire wrapped Club or Staff (5 replies)
- yet another Moro Kris (16 replies)
- Philippines wall plaque (7 replies)
- Moro Spear (83 replies)
- Does anyone have sources for quality reproductions? (1 replies)
- For comment: Possibly a 'Berber saber' (17 replies)
- LONDON ARMS FAIR (18 replies)
- videos on traditional Asian archery (0 replies)
- New to the forum, Hello, Pictures of swords WARNING LARGE PICS (13 replies)
- 18th Century Moro kris? (33 replies)
- Fantasy tropes: fear of cold iron. A prejudice from Africa? (7 replies)
- Arabic translation requested: Takouba pommel (3 replies)
- Kachin Dao (8 replies)
- Hunting Tigers with Katars: Fact or fiction? (48 replies)
- Old Somali Bilao Dagger (2 replies)
- New Mandau with different hilt (2 replies)
- Philippine weapons in Spanish museums (53 replies)
- Old File Bladed shibriya for comment (36 replies)
- A poke in the eye with a sharp stick (14 replies)
- Tibetan (?) Dagger for ID (10 replies)
- A Final Pattern-welded (twist core) Budiak - perhaps Bagobo? (5 replies)
- Japanese swordstick (8 replies)
- Kaskara translation (9 replies)
- Philippine 1st Republic/Katipunan Dagger(mislabeled auction) (9 replies)
- When did wootz blades stop being made in India? (13 replies)
- Metal De-Corroder and its effects (24 replies)
- Brazilian Gaucho-Themed Knife (1 replies)
- African ceremonial axes (5 replies)
- Blades found in Marrakech, Morocco (21 replies)
- A big happy takouba family (16 replies)
- arabic sword Identification (5 replies)
- golok ??? (9 replies)
- An extremely nice Indo-Persian Spear (9 replies)
- LONG THIN SPEAR FOR I.D (13 replies)
- Barong Dimensions Please (3 replies)
- Solomon, Hawaiian or???? (33 replies)
- Pattern-welded (twist core) Budiak (54 replies)
- Please help read the Arabic inscription on a tulwar blade. (3 replies)
- HOW TO MAKE A SUMPITAN (7 replies)
- Fijian Sali from Brimfield (10 replies)
- Help etch barung please (11 replies)
- Keri, know nothing about it. Help? (3 replies)
- Japanese Knife Blade (8 replies)
- yataghan translation n2 (3 replies)
- yataghan old inscription translation please1 (2 replies)
- Japanese translation (4 replies)
- Seldom seen Khanda (3 replies)
- Interesting Old Tebu Short Sword (7 replies)
- Napoleon's Mamelukes weapons. (14 replies)
- ID needed Persian or Ottoman Warriors? (6 replies)
- A Quadarra with Twistcore Blade (10 replies)
- Moro Kriss with Silver Jungayyan Hilt (9 replies)
- Is this a THAI or BURMESE Shield? (25 replies)
- Pre-contact Maori whalebone club (61 replies)
- Tourist Or Child's Knife (10 replies)
- Old Knobkerrie (10 replies)
- azimat on sikin scabbard: help please! (17 replies)
- Lance head/ spear point for ID (17 replies)
- Kindjals from Chechnya (6 replies)
- Samoan Nifo Oti with Repurposed Metal (2 replies)
- Sewar painted black (21 replies)
- Question about Chinese characters in a Barung blades! (5 replies)
- Two Unknown War Clubs American Indian Or ??? (5 replies)
- Very old ? Zulu Assegai (11 replies)
- Small? Wootz? Kurdish? Jambiya (12 replies)
- Old Kukri For Comment (10 replies)
- Sanggot (16 replies)
- Another Oddball piece for Identification (3 replies)
- Large Pacific Island club (7 replies)
- Beautiful kampilan (7 replies)
- Strange koftgari beast on kukri (10 replies)
- Knobkerrie ID please (5 replies)
- Please help ID these spears (18 replies)
- A kitchen knife, a tool weapon ... or what ? (7 replies)
- Jordanian dagger? (7 replies)
- Need Help with Identification (3 replies)
- Reference Tools for South East Asian Edged Weapons (9 replies)
- Kangaroo Tooth Lacerator (26 replies)
- Listen to your Katars! (15 replies)
- Just Ended On Ebay (18 replies)
- a recent montagnard dha i picked up (15 replies)
- Interesting website (3 replies)
- Ottoman Flintlock from Sudan (1 replies)
- Translations (8 replies)
- Knife for Indentification (6 replies)
- Lance head ?? Indo Persian? Seller stated African (21 replies)
- My Newest Acquisition (4 replies)
- Help for translation on Yatagan (2 replies)
- Strange Pesh Kabz For Comment (12 replies)
- A humble rustic lance head (6 replies)
- Maces, Clubs & Others (33 replies)
- Kampilan dimension help please (16 replies)
- Thai - Lanna Sword (Chang mai) (9 replies)
- Building a Kaskara (15 replies)
- Expensive Gunong (8 replies)
- Klewang Sumatra (32 replies)
- Weapon storage (16 replies)
- Crowns on Aceh weapons revisited (183 replies)
- Nice (10 replies)
- AFRICAN BOWIE KNIFE ? (12 replies)
- Pedang Marsose/Marechausseesabel Question (3 replies)
- Moro Budiak with a bit of baling wire (15 replies)
- Blocked by rust (3 replies)
- Heavy Indo Persian Sousun With Khanda Hilt (3 replies)
- Please Help Identify This Spear (5 replies)
- Firangi, or basket-hilted tulwar (15 replies)
- Birthday wishes (38 replies)
- A stone handled Pesh Kabz (9 replies)
- A Bagobo Sangi for comments (7 replies)
- Moroccan dagger? (0 replies)
- WWII Bringback bolo w/ possible makers mark for comment and info (4 replies)
- Origins of the term 'pulwar' or Afghan tulwar. (9 replies)
- Turtle shield (8 replies)
- bichaq country (5 replies)
- GOING TO FIELD MUSEUM AND NEED HELP! (1 replies)
- Forum Registration and Rules (1 replies)
- Pictures of weaponry, taken on my last "Tropenmuseum Amsterdam" visit. (16 replies)
- Wobbly guards on Jians and Daos (11 replies)
- Help Identifying This Islamic Dagger's Origin...and translation (8 replies)
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