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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 14th March 2017, 12:56 PM
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Posted By Lee
I do not believe I have ever attained...

I do not believe I have ever attained reservations at the seminar hotel; fortunately they have built a lot of new rooms in the area over the past decade and something can usually be found relatively...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 9th March 2017, 01:01 PM
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Views: 9,645
Posted By Lee
I think Alan has most excellently described how...

I think Alan has most excellently described how this attractive pattern would have been achieved.

While there are those (especially in the trade) who would surely describe it as 'pattern-welded',...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 21st February 2017, 10:07 PM
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Views: 24,284
Posted By Lee
Exclamation Counting Down!

The Timonium Seminar is now less than a month away!

Please register as soon as you know that you will be attending! Further information is located on the Seminar Web Page...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 2nd February 2017, 01:15 PM
Replies: 8
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Posted By Lee
The top one (brown background) is, I have been...

The top one (brown background) is, I have been led to believe, Kurdish.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 9th January 2017, 09:55 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 18,779
Posted By Lee
Unhappy Well, good for him...

The most frightening thing of all is that the seller's recent message may well be entirely truthful in the detail about an auction house expert buying the sword.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th December 2016, 06:07 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 17,648
Posted By Lee
Red face Sorry

It will be a bit longer before I find those detailed instructions.

The second motherboard of the machine I have been using for years gave out last year and I switched to another old machine I had...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th December 2016, 06:00 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 10,594
Posted By Lee
Arrow Musings

The statement at the bottom of every page is there for two reasons:
First, to acknowledge the current state of copyright law in much of the world that even without a proper notice something is...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 7th December 2016, 01:11 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 17,648
Posted By Lee
I will see if I can find the instructions that I...

I will see if I can find the instructions that I used to stabilize a Viking sword that was seriously flaking away. I suspect it is on the extracted hard drive of my dead computer.

I remember that...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 17th November 2016, 09:55 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 29,673
Posted By Lee
Question How old can these sheet metal blades be?

A most interesting discussion!

In cataloging Lew's collection I have come across a number of jambiyas that I suspect have these blades that are made from two stamped pieces of sheet metal fused...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd November 2016, 12:43 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 24,284
Posted By Lee
Exclamation Registration Opens Soon

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Roy Elvis : COLLECTING ARMS AND ARMOR OF THE SOUTH INDIAN WARRIOR
Mr Elvis, from the United Kingdom, is a collector and expert on South Indian Arms and...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 29th October 2016, 07:24 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 91,175
Posted By Lee
Thumbs up A preliminary view - recommended

I have only had the book for a few days, but I am most pleased to have added it to my library. I already had a number of books on Indian arms, but so very often they remain very general in their...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 13th October 2016, 11:10 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 12,226
Posted By Lee
Mounts are modern silver and leather work from...

Mounts are modern silver and leather work from Agadez, Niger.
Older European made trade blade with sun, moon and stars engraving.
(Usually these fancy high end mounts have been applied to decent...
Forum: Swap Forum 27th September 2016, 09:09 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,118
Posted By Lee
Exclamation Ok, a little more like late September...

The first group of ethnographic arms from the second phase of the Lew Waldman estate sale may now be seen on the preview page (http://vikingsword.com/lew/) and includes a few choice African,...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 18th September 2016, 04:46 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 24,284
Posted By Lee
Thumbs up 2017 Timonium Ethnographic Arms & Armor Seminar

Continuing under the sponsorship of Oriental Arms,
the Timonium Ethnographic Arms & Armor Seminar will return in 2017
on the Saturday evening of the Baltimore Antique Arms show!

This year's...
Forum: European Armoury 4th September 2016, 06:17 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 14,762
Posted By Lee
Exclamation Concerns for me...

3. Very uniform, shallow pitting across all components.
2. Style of blade.
1. The realization that period claymores are extremely rare such that the odds are very much stacked against antiquity for...
Forum: Swap Forum 24th August 2016, 04:01 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,118
Posted By Lee
Thumbs up Phase 2

Lew's arms, armor and related cultures library is now up for sale; you may find a listing on the Estate sale website (http://vikingsword.com/lew/#anchor281040). These books appear to have been...
Forum: European Armoury 21st July 2016, 05:17 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 14,077
Posted By Lee
Smile Most interesting

Description from Thomas Del Mar sale (9 Dec 2009):[/I]


Not described as 'composite' in the 1983 catalog or in the Sword - Form and Thought catalog where it is #18 and passes Peter Johnsson's...
Forum: European Armoury 21st July 2016, 01:52 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 14,077
Posted By Lee
The mystery continues

Well, clearly the same sword. I did not see it pictured in the Christie's London 1984 catalogs upon quick perusal. Sword in Hand was a nicely cleaned up version of a series of articles in The Gun...
Forum: European Armoury 8th July 2016, 02:06 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 45,536
Posted By Lee
XVIII.4 in Oakeshott's Records (p. 175)

Photo showing the very short 'ricasso' and copper inlaid mark on XVIII.4 in Oakeshott's Records (p. 175):
Forum: European Armoury 5th July 2016, 01:32 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 45,536
Posted By Lee
Thumbs up That very short ricasso on a hollow ground blade...

That very short ricasso on a hollow ground blade is also seen on XVIII.4 in Oakeshott's Records (p. 175); the same blade also has a very coppery inlaid punched mark. Mr. Oakeshott dated it to...
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania 21st June 2016, 12:29 PM
Replies: 150
Views: 156,421
Posted By Lee
Exclamation USFWS Perhaps Seeking an Appropriate Balance on Ivory

Agreed, both are guided by blind self righteousness. On the British Antiques Roadshow (recently in the US, last year in the UK) there was an especially acerebric representative from one such advocacy...
Forum: European Armoury 6th June 2016, 12:50 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,491
Posted By Lee
Pukka, Many thanks for this insight. I share...

Pukka,

Many thanks for this insight. I share in your suspicions.
Forum: European Armoury 30th May 2016, 01:29 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 15,898
Posted By Lee
This is covered to some degree in: Tylecote,...

This is covered to some degree in:
Tylecote, R.F. and Gilmour, B.J.J., B.A.R.British Series 155: The Metallography of Early Ferrous Edge Tools and Edged Weapons (Oxford: B.A.R., 1986).

A relevant...
Forum: European Armoury 19th May 2016, 03:11 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,491
Posted By Lee
Thumbs up and that leads to some links...

Roland & Norman, thank you both; I am sure that the Hurstwic group will find most of their answers within the information provided and I have found it most interesting as well. Apparently this has...
Forum: European Armoury 18th May 2016, 12:48 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,491
Posted By Lee
Question Viking Age Sax Size Range

This summer the Hurstwic (http://www.hurstwic.com/http://) Viking Martial Arts group will again travel to Iceland in order to film their second DVD based upon the Icelandic sagas at the actual...
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