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Tim Simmons 24th June 2011 06:15 PM

Bollocks.
 
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Need I say more. Sorry the picture is so bad I was on tiptoes.

Rick 24th June 2011 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Simmons
Need I say more. Sorry the picture is so bad I was on tiptoes.

Yes, please do say more .
Where, when, how, etc. etc.. :)

Tim Simmons 24th June 2011 06:46 PM

Sorry Rick, I did not note the information on this one but will update asap.

Jim McDougall 25th June 2011 12:40 AM

"....is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand?
and on the blade, and dudgeon, gouts of blood..which was not so before."
Macbeth ii, 1
The 'bollock' dagger, the forerunner of the Scottish dirk was often termed the dudgeon dagger for the hilt material which was usually fashioned out of boxwood (dudgeon) and in the 16th-17th centuries. By Victorian times, the blushing and prudish hypocrisy (P.C. even in those days :) forced the anatomical reference above the belt from the male metaphor to the lobed kidneys, and it began being termed the 'kidney' dagger.

Nice example, and wanted to add some historical context pending the details on it.

tom hyle 25th June 2011 01:26 AM

Tim, I want to visit you :)

Battara 25th June 2011 06:12 PM

Yes another form of bollock dagger. Like it a lot. :D

Jim McDougall 25th June 2011 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Battara
Yes another form of bollock dagger. Like it a lot. :D

There are probably quite a few forms of these ethnographic daggers. I look forward to learning more on these and what is different on this one.


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