Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th December 2019, 01:42 AM
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Weirdly enough, at a holiday "winter solstice"...
Weirdly enough, at a holiday "winter solstice" party just this past Saturday, a friend showed me a leather whip of penile origin and indicated that it was from a bull. Until then I was in blissful...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
28th November 2019, 05:37 PM
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Replies: 9
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Forum: European Armoury
8th November 2019, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 18
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th November 2019, 11:55 PM
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Replies: 54
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Nice, very nice!
Two very, very nice spearheads.
The early winged one appears to definitely have one band of pattern-welding. If the meandering side to side is the 'mirror image' on the back side, then this...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th October 2019, 02:18 PM
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Replies: 13
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Forum: European Armoury
27th October 2019, 04:32 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 14,984
Beautiful!
That is one beautiful sword regardless of where the blade was made! My initial impression is for a European origin for the blade and we know from Oakeshott’s writings that inscriptions on many old...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th October 2019, 01:27 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 13,082
If you go to the official eBay community forums...
If you go to the official eBay community forums you will find endless GSP horror stories and complaints along these lines of inappropriate but reimbursed seizure, about shoddy repacking leading to...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th October 2019, 04:30 PM
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Replies: 21
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st October 2019, 08:53 AM
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Replies: 15
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This kris is in the Museo del Ejército (Army...
This kris is in the Museo del Ejército (Army Museum) in Toledo, Spain. My thoughts on its age were similar to those expressed above, despite the fact that I have long carried a strong suspicion that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th September 2019, 05:24 AM
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Replies: 7
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th September 2019, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 22,073
Kris behind glass
Here are a few images of a kris on display in an important museum. For now, I'll not prejudice the discussion with details from the museum's descriptive tag.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th September 2019, 08:20 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 11,998
exactly how I like them
Really nice and exactly how I like them! Whatever the reason for the unassuming hilt - and Ian's thoughts about it being mounted for serious use as a weapon make sense to me - I much prefer a great...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
10th September 2019, 11:05 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 20,502
I expect this technology could give an airport...
I expect this technology could give an airport luggage or postal parcel X-ray inspection device an ability to present a fairly accurate description of the contents to a customs officer without the...
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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
22nd July 2019, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 16
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Some back of envelope calculations
So, this budiak (http://vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12538) is obviously not a keris, but perhaps it may, through some back of envelope conclusions provide some insight. X-Ray fluorescence...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st July 2019, 05:59 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th July 2019, 06:17 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th July 2019, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 69,023
Technical details
The contrast within the twist core pattern-welding of the budiak that this thread started with appears to have been enhanced by a small percentage of Nickel. X-Ray fluorescence analysis (so, surface...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st July 2019, 04:46 PM
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Replies: 11
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No magic bullet
I think Philip is absolutely correct and that the first and primary defense against items made to deceive is having seen and handled an adequate number of known genuine artifacts in the particular...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th June 2019, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 18,121
Not wootz, but...
This blade is made of a coarsely laminated steel in which layers of contrasting alloys have first been forged parallel to the flat faces of the 'proto -' blade and then a design drilled out and the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th June 2019, 01:55 PM
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Replies: 32
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Forum: European Armoury
20th June 2019, 03:22 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 18,502
Perhaps mostly for balance?
Though the hammer head is small (2.26 x 2.79 cm. in maximum cross section), I imagine that it does move the center of gravity further back towards the haft (see photo below) and that the presence of...
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Forum: European Armoury
20th June 2019, 02:57 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 18,502
Thank you, Gentlemen.
BUCC_Guy, I think your...
Thank you, Gentlemen.
BUCC_Guy, I think your illustration is surely of the same type of object, but of a clearly higher quality with the maker's mark and cut-out. I could not identify any markings...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th June 2019, 02:46 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 34,528
Just an aside, I bought a similar box devoid of...
Just an aside, I bought a similar box devoid of the sword several years ago at the Brimfield flea market for $100. I attribute that box as Syrian and not more than a few decades old. The dealer said...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th June 2019, 06:37 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 18,502
Excavated Battleaxe with Integral Langets
I believe that this was made as a battleaxe on the basis that the blade seems too thin for a wood working tool (2.9 mm at 1 cm from edge, 3.95 mm where 'beard' of blade expands and 11.6 mm at neck...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th June 2019, 04:25 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 14,300
Tours are Available
I was doing some locums work in Newburgh in the last decade and one day, when I was up in the office of the occupational health nurse, I could see the remains of Bannerman's castle out the window in...
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