Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st November 2018, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 12
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Help in identifying for this spear
[IMG]Hello to all,
Someone has an idea of the origin of this spear. I thought South Seas from Marquesas but as the spear point is in wrought iron, I imagine a Native American North American origin....
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Forum: European Armoury
21st November 2018, 10:02 AM
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Replies: 17
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Forum: European Armoury
20th November 2018, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 17
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Forum: European Armoury
20th November 2018, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 9,734
Misterious "British" to identifying
Hello Kronckew,
Yes indeed it was in auction and I did not know that it was not advisable to present an object in the course of sale. I will not do it anymore and apologize to the administrators.
I...
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Forum: European Armoury
20th November 2018, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 17
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Forum: European Armoury
19th November 2018, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 9,734
Intriguing British sword to identify
Hello from Belgium, to all members
Today I have seen this sword, on Internet, which it seems ''incognito'' at auction and seems to me quite intriguing to create a topic of discussion to try to...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th November 2018, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th November 2018, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
Help to identifying a mysterious "1831 type sword"
Hello Ivan,
Tank you for these very interesting photos that allow more and more to attribute this sword to an Officer of the Army of the Sultanate of Afghanistan under the reign of Abdur Rahman Khan...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2018, 07:22 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2018, 07:18 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
Help to identifying a mysterious "1831 type sword"
Good evening, Thank you for your intervention that has sufficiently attracted my attention for me to research the position of the star of "proof test".
Here is what I could find and I can assure you...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2018, 06:52 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2018, 04:37 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
Help to identifying a mysterious "1831 type sword"
Hello and thank you Jim for these very interesting information. It is true that it would be nice if I finally bought the Robson.
But to return to this sword I also thought (but with much doubt) that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2018, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2018, 12:54 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2018, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th November 2018, 10:44 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
Help to identifying a mysterious "1831 type sword"
Thank you very much for your information that helps me to direct my research. Yes it is true that the engraving is very deep. I will think rather of a model used in India or for a "??? Indian Officer...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th November 2018, 02:33 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 9,568
Poignard sous officier Russe
Bpnjour,
Il faudrait se renseigner du coté des poignards de sous officier de l'Armée Impériale Russe vers la fin du XIXe. Il me semble que les officiers avaient des poignards avec une lame fort...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th November 2018, 01:26 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 14,845
Help to identifying a type of (British) sword
Hello from Belgium, to all members,
Yesterday, in a French auction room I noticed the passage of that seems to be an British sword of the type looked like a model 1831 but I did not know this type...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th July 2018, 07:22 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,661
Good evening Tim,
Thank you for this point of...
Good evening Tim,
Thank you for this point of view that seems logical. The handle also has "waves" as if it was for the shape of the fingers.In fact this work very "raw" but very efficient could...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th July 2018, 12:31 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,661
Dagger origin unknown
Hello from Belgium,
I bought this dagger as I thought of an African sacrifice knife of Kirdi origin nineteenth / early twentieth. But the more I look at it, the more I think it has no Kirdi origin,...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd November 2016, 07:20 PM
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Replies: 5
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Shamshir without mark
Hi Kubur, Hi A. Alnakkas and many thanks for your comments.
Is there possible to imagine a period for the blade and the mount. the hilt is in leather I think, it seems horn but it is not.
The...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd November 2016, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,107
Shamshir without mark
Hi to all members,
Would you help me to learn more about my recent acquisition which I have found on this monday in Belgium. There is no mark or stamp on the blade but with the flash of the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th August 2015, 09:29 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 17,557
Araboottoman sword
Good morning Mr al Balooshi.
Thank you to send me back to the Buttin illustration which I think recognizing the No. 1004 with its similar scabbard.
Thank you again for your intervention.
See you...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th August 2015, 09:16 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 17,557
Arabo-Ottoman sword
Hello Ian, Hello to all members and a big thank you for your comments and your interest about this "enigmatic" sword :-)
The handle seems rhinoceros horn because its fiber had the characteristics...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th August 2015, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 17,557
Arabo-Ottoman sword
Hello to all members.
Thank you very much for your comments and link.
Is there a rapprochement with the Zanzibar type swords.
Do you have any idea why this handle rhinoceros horn and silver. ...
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