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CutlassCollector
27th May 2013, 05:19 PM
Hi all, even Jim's extensive library could not help so I'm repeating my request for anyone with a copy of:

Storia dell'arma bianca italiana: Da Waterlo al nuovo millennio, by Cesare Calamandre

to let me know so that I can check a reference to an Italian Boarding axe. I have a picture so it may not be necessary to translate from the Italian as well.
Thanks, CC.

ps: Mark, I have sent you a pm.

Jim McDougall
28th May 2013, 07:05 PM
C'mon guys, the gauntlet has been thrown down.....even the bookmobile couldnt get this one :) There must be somebody out there with this reference.

M ELEY
30th May 2013, 10:04 AM
Hello David. Sorry I missed your earlier PM. I have posted a message for you. Thanks! Sorry I don't have the reference you mentioned.
Mark

Dmitry
3rd June 2013, 03:02 PM
I have that book. What exactly are you looking for? I don't understand your question.

CutlassCollector
3rd June 2013, 09:11 PM
Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for responding - I have sent you a pm with the details.
Regards,

CC

Dmitry
4th June 2013, 03:36 PM
I misread your post, I thought you wrote that you had the picture of the Italian axe from the Calamandrei book...so here it is.

CutlassCollector
4th June 2013, 07:01 PM
Many thanks, Dmitry.
That's exactly what I needed.

Thank you.
Regards, CC.

Dmitry
5th June 2013, 12:07 AM
No problem. Glad to have been helpful.

I had an axe similar to that one construction-wise.
The head was a little bigger than the axes in Boarders Away.
I have seen them described on the internets as WWI Italian army corps of engineers axes or trench-making picks and such.