The thin and the fat

[Flavio]

Hi all, here are two somali Bellawas. One (the thin one) it's a new purchase the other (the fat) it's already seen on the forum. The longer one shows the blade completly finished with signs of a stone or maybe a file.

[Lew]

Flavio

Very nice! It's getting harder to find good examples of Somali blades. Here are a few of mine the long one is almost a match of yours and it took me 3 years of hard looking to find it. Funny these style swords and daggers remind me of Norse scramasax.


Lew

[Flavio]

Hi Lew you're right the similarities are very strong with the scramasax blade :eek: And I have also looked around for a while before to find a somali dagger with the longer an thin blade. I don't remember to have seen a picture with a somali man that dress this kind of dagger-short sword, do you have some references? thank you

[roanoa]

Ciao, Flavio. Here is a nice picture of a Somali warrior, circa 1890/1910. The short sword is, OF COURSE (....) covered by the robe, but the hilt is quite visible and unmistakable. I have seen quite a few similar pictures. This is one of the best, Enjoy and BUONA PASQUA. Roano

[Flavio]

Ciao caro Roano, thank you very much, it's a beautiful picture and for sure Lew also will love it (the hilt is identical to Lew's one) BUONA PASQUA ANCHE A TE :) Here two pics from Spring's book: maybe the sketch shows a longer Bellawa?

[Tim Simmons]

Those spears are nice in the pic Roanoa post. Like some of the short fat knives, left black with iron scale and a sharp white edge. Very smart, great spears I need one to feel complete.

[Flavio]

Hi Tim, unfortunatly these spears are rather rare, even here in Italy there are few. Time ago I was so stupid to wait too much and a person that had SEVEN sold them before I was able to buy one :(

[Flavio]

Another nice picture from the Smithsonian site :)