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Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Indeed this is a worthy thread, but.... If this "guard" was found in East Asia, it would be classified as a a "Namban tsuba" of some kind. Peter |
Forum: Swap Forum
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![]() I have - and do not need - a copy of G. B. Gardner's 1936 volume. I'd love to swap it would something interesting. Gun parts, VOC stuff, Namban gear. Anybody interested? Peter |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 19
Views: 4,627
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pbleed
![]() I've come across blades with scabbards like this but never known how they were worn. Can you clarify that? Peter |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,781
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pbleed
![]() I so rarely have anything to contribute to this forum that it took me a while to add to this discussion. And in that delay, I think the issue of this blade has largely been solved. It is ABSOLUTELY a... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 15
Views: 5,898
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pbleed
![]() This looks to me like the signature of the man who carved the fittings. It is probably in NO WAY a reference to whoever made the blade. If I had to - I'd read this signature a either "Hoichi" or... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 15
Views: 5,898
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pbleed
![]() While hunting Ainu cutlery I have seen a couple of these short sword that have carved koshirae that seems to reference Ainu motif. They feature something like "fish scale" designs. they are carved on... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,856
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pbleed
![]() Yep, a Chinese "fake." The best possible construction is that it a post-War weapon made for the Peoples' Army - they did use IJA weapons as proto-types. It looks rather solidly made, but the Japanese... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,196
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pbleed
![]() This absolutely is a Japanese drill. These big ones were often operated with a bow or a rope. Peter Bleed |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,786
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pbleed
![]() Dr. Stein is correct. this is a Japanese gunto made in August 1943 by a cutlerer named Kanenori. He was a an established producer of military swords. This sword is a wirthy example of wartime... |
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,762
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pbleed
![]() This sure looks like a straightening/truing tool. I could easily see it as an armorer's tool. Peter |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,611
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pbleed
![]() Friends, A couple of weeks back, I got my knuckles rapped for being short in my assessment of a blade that seemed to have a "Japanese" inscription. It was so obviously NOT authentic that I thought... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 11
Views: 6,633
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pbleed
![]() One of the high points of my life was a trip up to NE Tibet, to the Town called Xaihe, where the great Ladrang temple is located in the early 1990's This has long been a contact point between... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 14
Views: 4,970
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pbleed
![]() If this were mine, I would call it "a helm of a miniature!" Peter |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 19
Views: 5,306
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pbleed
![]() Very interesting. It certainly could be a "one off", but I agree with Trench that it has a Spanish colonial look. I'd like close ups of the scabbard fittings. Peter |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,122
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pbleed
![]() This has been a very useful thread. Thanks. I have been tempted by these helmets - which seem to have burst rather suddenly on the market. The collectors' community needs this kind of candid... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 24
Views: 9,371
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pbleed
![]() Friends, This is an interesting gun. I recommend taking at look at the matchlocks shown in Stone's glossary. I suggest that it is "south" Chinese or Indo-chinese. A neat piece. Peter |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,724
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pbleed
![]() Friends, I have a low tolerance for Chinese fakes. I fail to see how anybody could confuse this stuff with traditional cutlery. Unfortunately, the last time I let this bias manifest itself I was... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 31
Views: 7,274
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pbleed
![]() Well, gee. I tried in concrete terms to explain what IJN daggers are really worth. There are lots of books and websites that offer this information on these blades. I did not mention the fact that... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 31
Views: 7,274
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pbleed
![]() There are two blades here. The Navy Dagger is absolutely a piece of WWII era Japanese militaria. The other blade is absolutely Modern Chinese production. Your father wasted his money. It will be... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 26
Views: 14,158
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pbleed
![]() Dear Friends, The press of other chores has kept me from responding to the addtions to this thread. I do thank you all. Please let me also call your attention to a pair of posters on the scale... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,878
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pbleed
![]() Friends, Forgive me for mismanageing this. I see the image when I open the message on the forum, but let's try again. I am eager to get your reactions and insights. Peter |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,878
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pbleed
![]() Friends. Found together with the scale armor I described to the forum last week was an iron helmet. Please let me show that to the list and request your help. It appears much like a billed... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 26
Views: 14,158
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pbleed
![]() Dear Friends, cole and I had a couple of off line exchanges. Perhaps some on the forum will find them of interest Thanks very much your message. I appreciate that Alan Senenfelder was kind enough to... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 26
Views: 14,158
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pbleed
![]() To breathe life into this discussion, please allow me to attach an image of the brass nut on this inside of the scale armor. I am not sure how old it may be, but I doubt that it is Roman. Peter |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 26
Views: 14,158
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pbleed
![]() Dear Mr. Senefelder, Thanks for yu comments. This armor was the property of a frontier Army staff office, John Gregory Bourke. He had got it in about 1870 in Arizona, but it came with a story of... |
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