Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th July 2016, 04:33 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th July 2016, 01:57 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th July 2016, 01:43 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th July 2016, 01:34 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th April 2016, 10:25 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
5th April 2016, 10:48 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2016, 12:53 PM
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I'm afraid I don't have any info about why the...
I'm afraid I don't have any info about why the Viceroy was presented the swords etc. or why they ended up in the GM. But Wavell being the Viceroy would have been presented all sorts of stuff. Perhaps...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2016, 12:26 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th March 2016, 12:19 PM
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That type of hilt on khunda and kukri is quite...
That type of hilt on khunda and kukri is quite rare in terms of Nepal, why it was put on Khunda I do not know, as its primary function was one of use in sacrificial duties, whether it was copied from...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th March 2016, 11:55 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th March 2016, 05:30 PM
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Once again answers in brackets and in bold, to...
Once again answers in brackets and in bold, to these rather stupid and childish nitpickings
(Lol, really fanciful, even my wife recognised it, she was with me in 2003 when I discussed with Tilak...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th March 2016, 05:12 PM
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Answers in Brackets and bold
(Well you put...
Answers in Brackets and bold
(Well you put the picture up of my companies kukri that we used to produce, I'm hardly doing the advertising!
I think you have a cheek saying my videos are full of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th March 2016, 04:27 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th March 2016, 04:26 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th March 2016, 03:49 PM
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Perhaps you didn't read what I said originally...
Perhaps you didn't read what I said originally 'An interesting picture there Chris, as it was originally made for my company, and wasn't in production until 2004, note the Tiger (Japanese Tora), by...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd March 2016, 11:05 PM
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An interesting picture there Chris, as it was...
An interesting picture there Chris, as it was originally made for my company, and wasn't in production until 2004, note the Tiger (Japanese Tora), by the late Nawaraj, other Khukuri houses have...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd March 2016, 10:55 PM
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Well having supplied kukri to the Gurkhas in...
Well having supplied kukri to the Gurkhas in Brunei I can tell you that no reference was made to the term 'Mk5', but they did talk about the Mk3.
Potentially the earliest pictures I have seen of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd March 2016, 09:02 AM
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I don't think it is a presentation Kothimora...
I don't think it is a presentation Kothimora (pronounced Kotimora) of the Gurkhas Battara, I think it is more likely to be a kukri made for retail than a Kothimora kukri of the Gurkhas
The main...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st March 2016, 11:41 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th February 2016, 11:31 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th February 2016, 11:25 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th February 2016, 12:27 PM
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Also when a Kothimora kukri is presented by...
Also when a Kothimora kukri is presented by Gurkhas to another Gurkha or someone they like, it usually has a silver plaque on the Kothimora scabbard with the recipients name on it as in the picture...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th February 2016, 12:21 PM
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Personally I very much doubt it was a Falklands...
Personally I very much doubt it was a Falklands War Era kukri, here are some pics with a 1969 and 1982 service issue kukri, the 1982 issue has the brass mounts (and often mistakenly called a Mk5),...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
29th February 2016, 12:31 AM
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As far as I am aware the Gurkhas didn't do a...
As far as I am aware the Gurkhas didn't do a commemorative kukri for the Falklands War, the 2nd Gurkha Rifles and the 6th Gurkha Rifles (mainly made up of Magar and Gurung) were amalgamated in to the...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th February 2016, 09:20 AM
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