Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th January 2017, 08:34 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 37,880
To Ariel
Hi Ariel, you are right of course. It was late and I did use my words a bit loosely. Denis' idea is a hypothesis and not a theory and I only meant that it was yours because you brought it up,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th January 2017, 10:32 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 37,880
Hi all,
Thanks for all your comments. I didn't...
Hi all,
Thanks for all your comments. I didn't expect this thread to raise much interest, but I am happy to be wrong.
Ariel, your theory is the stuff of legends..but that is what I think it is....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th January 2017, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 37,880
Comments
Hi Miguel, Thanks for asking. I will comment on them one by one and that will take a while. I am not a very good expert on the subject, so don't take my comments as the truth but as an opinion.
As...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th January 2017, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 10
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Faux suede
Faux suede? Seriously? Yes you should remove it, but I wouldn't know what to replace it with and the wood underneath is probably ugly. I suspect that the original cover was not brilliant either. The...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd January 2017, 10:27 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 15,983
Nice
Hi Ariel. Very nice one. Not common with scabbard and almost nothing missing. They are charming despite the primitive workmanship. Notice the style of decoration with bulges is similar to my...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd January 2017, 10:39 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 19,676
Pistols
Hi Kubur,
Yes, the barrels are beautiful, dark smooth steel. They must be heavy too. I like especially the hexagonal barrels. The locks, with short and thick frizzens are also different from later...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd January 2017, 03:18 PM
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Replies: 12
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Islamic symbol
Hi Dajak,
Don't know anything about kerisses, so I am just guessing, but to me, it looks like another stylized version of the "tree of life" motif. This is fairly common Islamic symbol on blades,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd January 2017, 03:06 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 19,676
Beautiful
Hi Kubur, they are exquisite. Excuse my ignorance, but how old is "early" in Ottoman pistols? I have looked at many pics of Ottoman pistols, but I have never seen anything like them in shape or...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st January 2017, 01:16 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 37,880
Dog-leg
Thanks Ariel. Dog-leg it is. Dog-leg blade is also the tell tale sign of older Majdalis between late 19th century and WWI.
Disk and ring on the pommel are typical of pre-shibriyas as well as early...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th January 2017, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 37,880
Hi A.alnakkas,
Thanks for your sympathetic...
Hi A.alnakkas,
Thanks for your sympathetic post. Unfortunately, I have no real answers. Shibr or shiber is an old Arab length unit denoting the distance between the tip of the pink and the tip of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th January 2017, 05:43 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 37,880
To Ariel
Hi Ariel,
Shibriyas are not that common on the international market, mostly becuase of lack of familiarity and/or interest. The exception are contemporary tourist ones made in and around Amman,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th January 2017, 03:46 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 37,880
Another early shibriya
Hello,
Few months ago, I showed a primitive and early shibriya in this forum (http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21289&highlight=Shibriya). I like it a lot, and therefore, when I saw a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th January 2017, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 134
Views: 236,017
Thanks
Totally not my area, but wonderful stuff, as usual.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th January 2017, 11:24 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 17,518
No answers, but more questions
Hi Detlef. As I said, I am not an expert and can not help you any further. However, the concept of miniature dagger as concealed weapons, ladies' dagger or children's dagger is intriguing. I have...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th January 2017, 08:12 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 13,059
Additional remarks
Hello Geoff, I let my friend read the inscription on the blade (only the visible side). It says "shughul Majdal", meaning "work of Majdal" or in normal English "made in Majdal". This refutes the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th January 2017, 08:29 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 17,518
Greece
Hi Sajen, I am really not an expert, but I tend to agree with Fernando. The engraving on the blade is typical of Cretan knifes and I have not seen similar style on any other blades. The style of the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th January 2017, 07:16 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 58,831
Aterian similarity
Hi VANDOO,
Sorry for the late response. The items you show in your one-before-last post are reminicen in shape to those from the Aterian culture of the Sahara that started around 140,000 YBP. They...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th January 2017, 12:58 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 13,059
To G. Manfield/Geoff
Hi, thanks for sharing your Majdalis with us. Indeed, the third one from the left is the oldest and most beatiful. The fourth from left is also a very good one. Both share style elements with each...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th January 2017, 08:50 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 13,059
Thanks
Battara and Maiusgmioc, thank you for your response. Always nice to read good think about things you bought. I am not dissapointed of the Kukri, because that is what I expected, and besides, it was a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th January 2017, 12:29 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 13,059
Sharing a Majdali and a Kukri Question
Hello all,
I am collector of daggers from the Levant. I was looking for a good quality Majdali dagger (from the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan). I already had 3, but none is of the best...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th December 2016, 08:42 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 14,134
Never mind
Hi Andreas and Kubur. You are both being very decent, but I don't really mind. If there was a substantial money reward or few good khanjars in it..:)
You are right Andreas. I am still under...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th December 2016, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 58,831
Beautiful!
Thanks Vandoo for posting this. I don't know anything about the them, but besides the great esthetic beauty, these tools are infomative for me. I collect stone-age flints in the fields on and off for...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th December 2016, 10:34 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 14,134
Gayer?
Hi Kubur, I have found a much more likely candidate. Citing from Wikipedia: "Gayer-Anderson Pasha:
He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1904 and was later transferred to the Egyptian Army in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th December 2016, 06:27 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 17,993
Very nice, but puzzeling
Hi, I agree that the letters look Armenian (though I don't read any Armenian), but the looks is very Ottoman/Greek. Theoretically, this would point towards Eastern Armenia (Cilicia), which was in the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th October 2016, 10:50 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 8,925
Thanks
I knew I could trust this forum members for some good answers. Thank you. Here are some additional pictures. Unfortunately, the blade is severely damaged by rust and I can only stabilize it. It is a...
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