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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th February 2023, 01:16 PM
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Posted By Richard R.
Hi, Dimitry Thank you for the nice pictures...

Hi, Dimitry

Thank you for the nice pictures of your mail-plate armour.

Apparently there are chainmail-plate shirts with two main front plates and those with two pairs of overlapping main front...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st February 2023, 11:20 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 19,832
Posted By Richard R.
Hi Nihl, Hi Mahratt I would like to thank...

Hi Nihl, Hi Mahratt

I would like to thank you very much for your contributions. Regarding the first blurred inscription, I will take more detailed pictures which may increase the chance of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 20th February 2023, 03:57 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 19,832
Posted By Richard R.
Inscription identification of two Indian chainmail-plate armour (Zirah Baktar)

Concerning the cataloguing, description and verification of old incomplete data of some oriental blades and armours, I would like to ask for your help. I would be grateful for any inputs such as...
Forum: European Armoury 21st July 2021, 09:57 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 37,136
Posted By Richard R.
Hello Jim. My research is still ongoing and has...

Hello Jim.
My research is still ongoing and has led to more questions than answers. For this reason, I am very grateful for your independent contributions. They give me interesting and helpful input...
Forum: European Armoury 21st July 2021, 07:14 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 37,136
Posted By Richard R.
My initial conclusions based on my research into...

My initial conclusions based on my research into this sabre left me with a headache. At first glance, the mounting and decoration of this sabre spontaneously reminds me of 19th century...
Forum: European Armoury 21st July 2021, 03:06 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 37,136
Posted By Richard R.
Blades with "stippled" blade decoration.

Decorations with speckled dots ("stippled" blade decoration) are known from luxury blades of Zlatoust (Russia) and were probably introduced there in 1816 by the master sword smith Wilhelm Nikolaus...
Forum: European Armoury 19th July 2021, 06:12 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 37,136
Posted By Richard R.
Dating on the basis of blade decoration

Thank you very much for the interesting and profound hints and contributions.

The scabbard has no signature. The picture below shows a section of the blade decoration.

P.S. I must admit that it...
Forum: European Armoury 18th July 2021, 05:58 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 37,136
Posted By Richard R.
Until now, the pommel has been described as a...

Until now, the pommel has been described as a lioness. I personally assume that a lioness is indeed depicted. But this could be a false assumption.

Without giving too much away, one can assume...
Forum: European Armoury 18th July 2021, 11:36 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 37,136
Posted By Richard R.
I have searched for a comparable sabre grip on a...

I have searched for a comparable sabre grip on a French sabre, without success. Specially to note is that sabre hilt is distinguishingly formed as a lioness. This seems unusual, as otherwise lions...
Forum: European Armoury 17th July 2021, 07:18 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 37,136
Posted By Richard R.
Thank you very much for your comments and...

Thank you very much for your comments and assessments.

For my research, it is essential that this sabre is judged without consideration of the attributed historical context, respectively without...
Forum: European Armoury 14th July 2021, 07:19 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 37,136
Posted By Richard R.
Dating and determination of origin of a sabre with a lion-snake mount

Hello,

For the verification of a thesis, I ask you to date an determinate the origin of this sabre intuitively on the basis of the style of the mounting. If you know of similar mountings on other...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 23rd November 2020, 12:03 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 12,041
Posted By Richard R.
About the Term “Wootz”

The term wootz is in fact problematic.

The term "Wootz" in relation to the history of the European perception, naming, imitation and research of the “true oriental pattern crucible steel blades"...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st November 2020, 07:28 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 12,041
Posted By Richard R.
This first shown Yataghan has been described by...

This first shown Yataghan has been described by the auctions houses Bonham London and Auctions Imperial as follows:

“A RUSSIAN YATAGHAN, 19TH CENTURY:
With watered recurved single-edged blade,...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 19th November 2020, 08:40 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 12,041
Posted By Richard R.
What about this Yataghan wit Damascus-Pattern,...

What about this Yataghan wit Damascus-Pattern, also Russian or +/- Central Asia or Indian?
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th November 2020, 10:41 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 12,041
Posted By Richard R.
Here some additional pictures.

Here some additional pictures.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th November 2020, 06:44 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 12,041
Posted By Richard R.
Question marks on a supposedly Russian Yataghan with Shashka grip and “bulat” blade?

Hi,

I bought this supposedly Russian Yataghan with a bulat (wootz) blade some years ago and would like to ask your opinion about dating an origin of this weapon.

The” Damascus Pattern” on the...
Forum: European Armoury 13th October 2014, 10:30 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 10,207
Posted By Richard R.
Hello Jasper, Thank you for your help, the...

Hello Jasper,

Thank you for your help, the attached Pictures and graphics.

Richard
Forum: European Armoury 12th October 2014, 05:36 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 10,207
Posted By Richard R.
Hello Jasper, Thank you for your...

Hello Jasper,

Thank you for your information’s. The authenticity of the sword was confirmed by the expert for arms and armour of the auction house.

More information's on the sword:

Overall...
Forum: European Armoury 10th October 2014, 07:04 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 10,207
Posted By Richard R.
Help on Dating and finding informations on a early medieval pattern welded sword

Hello,

This sword has been dated by the auction house as 9th or 10th Century. My first impression was that this blade could date from the 5th to 6th Century. So I hope to find further...
Forum: European Armoury 2nd February 2013, 01:02 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 5,468
Posted By Richard R.
Finds of pattern welded blades in Spain and North Africa between the 2nd and 12th AD?

Hello

Has anyone got any information (Pictures, metallurgical analysis, Documents) about pattern welded blades found or made in Spain or North Africa between the 2nd and 12th Century AD?
...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 5th November 2012, 01:22 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 8,354
Posted By Richard R.
North African Pattern welded Blades between 3th BC to 6th C AD

Hello Iain

Thank you for your reply. The few swords on Patrick Barta's Home Page from the 5th and 6th Century are examples of pattern welded blades.

Does anybody know if in North Africa any...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 31st October 2012, 10:58 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 8,354
Posted By Richard R.
North African sword types of the first Half of the 6th Century AD

Hello

Could some one tell me what North African swords of the first half of the 6th Century AD looked like?

Is there known what kind of swords, that the Vandals used at this time in Norh...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 23rd December 2011, 08:13 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 7,957
Posted By Richard R.
Hello Lee Thank you for the pictures. ...

Hello Lee

Thank you for the pictures.

Yes I studied his book (German Edition). I think it's one of the best researched publication regarding the structure of early medieval European blades made...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st December 2011, 10:04 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 7,957
Posted By Richard R.
Thank you for the very good pictures. Could you...

Thank you for the very good pictures. Could you send me pictures where I can see the whole Yataghans? I attache some pictures of a yataghan of my pattern-blade-collection. I need some help. Any ideas...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st December 2011, 12:12 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 7,957
Posted By Richard R.
Hello Lee Up till now I have not found...

Hello Lee

Up till now I have not found pictures or documents form Yataghans with twist core blades dated before 1770. Do you think that your second Yataghan is to be dated before 1770?

How old...
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