Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
18th November 2016, 03:19 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 8,870
I thank you, Fernando.
Your "gizmo" is...
I thank you, Fernando.
Your "gizmo" is similar to a spring hammer used in silversmithing to stretch and thin silver sheet. When you're faced with hours of hammering to achieve a mundane but...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
16th November 2016, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 8,870
It's a setup used to make gold leaf.
Small...
It's a setup used to make gold leaf.
Small pieces of pure gold are interleaved with chamois or some other leather and stacked up. This stack is hammered until the gold is so thin it becomes...
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Forum: European Armoury
20th October 2016, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 13,659
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Forum: European Armoury
4th October 2016, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 29,064
Beautiful piece!
The orange jewel is called a...
Beautiful piece!
The orange jewel is called a cairngorm. I'm not sure of the origin of the word, probably old Scottish.
I believe it is topaz or sometime smoky quartz if it's a more brownish...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th September 2016, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 7,184
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Forum: European Armoury
24th September 2016, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,003
I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole!...
I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole! Strictly tourist.
The lock and iron bits appear to be cast. I doubt a file ever passed over any of the parts I can see.
There is no patina at the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
10th September 2016, 06:23 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,903
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th September 2016, 04:26 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 11,873
The perfect consistency of the wire rings and...
The perfect consistency of the wire rings and identically round holes without wear on either component alone tell me that this is not very old.
But the "pitting" on the plates is hammered texture....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th September 2016, 05:01 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,802
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Forum: European Armoury
10th August 2016, 10:28 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 32,334
...and speaking of the French-Mexican design...
...and speaking of the French-Mexican design continuum, I recently picked this saber's up right out of the woodwork!
And, to boot, it came from a kid I went to grammar school with fifty years...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th July 2016, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 12,844
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
2nd July 2016, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 8,970
When I was a kid my grandfather told me about...
When I was a kid my grandfather told me about this kind of trap. As he would have had to be a teenager or thereabouts, this would have been sometime in the first decade of the 20th century that he...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
25th June 2016, 01:07 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 9,790
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Forum: European Armoury
25th June 2016, 05:40 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 21,816
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Forum: European Armoury
20th June 2016, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 14,786
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th June 2016, 05:43 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 10,988
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Forum: European Armoury
16th June 2016, 04:17 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 37,221
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Forum: European Armoury
16th June 2016, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,197
That would be a possibility, but a boar spear...
That would be a possibility, but a boar spear usually has a sharpened blade and a slot through which a peg is inserted. A spike won't do enough damage to stop a boar in its tracks. Unless something...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th June 2016, 06:53 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 35,573
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th May 2016, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 9,737
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th May 2016, 04:53 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 7,203
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th May 2016, 05:28 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 29,025
Last year I visited the Peabody Museum at...
Last year I visited the Peabody Museum at Harvard. It had been about forty years since I last visited and remember viewing a group of Gilbert Islands weapons and fiber armor.
I didn't have great...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
24th May 2016, 04:39 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 5,697
Thanks!
The Frasier Museum was a real gem...
Thanks!
The Frasier Museum was a real gem located downtown across from the Louisville Slugger baseball bat factory.
While baseball is definitely not my thing, the 40 foot tall bat is a good...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
12th May 2016, 05:32 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 5,697
Going to Louisville next week. Any suggestions?
I haven't been to Louisville in ten years, and am curious to know of any antique malls, museums, etc. that I could visit.
I collect a wide variety of things, not all weapons related.
Thanks for...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th May 2016, 12:22 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,564
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