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![]() Truly remarkable that it got to your hands in "untouched" condition. If you do some more conservation work and light cleaning, please share pics of the result. Am especially interested in seeing... |
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![]() Rick, True, the butts on both are of essentially triangular shape but... note that the Balkan gun is designed to be held against the shoulder when aimed, whereas this Finnish gun has a cheek-stock,... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Thanks, Ulrik, for sharing such a rare and unusual gun! All the more amazing that it dates from the 1880s, when the rest of Europe had moved beyond muzzle-loading into breech-loading technology... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Nando, the photos you added are worthy of comment. There is a demilune below a trident, they were separate classes of weapons. In China (as well as Korea and Vietnam) the trident was much more... |
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Thanks, Bruno, for posting the pics. The text is an 11th cent. military encyclopedia, Wujing Zongyao It has a plethora of polearms, which scholars like David Nicolle have commented that such a... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Nando, I first became aware of the example in the Met by way of Stone's Glossary... page 276, under the entry "Half Moon, Demilune" . So try Half Moon in the Met's online catalog search engine. ... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The term "gekken" is irrelevant to the weapon under discussion: 1. The word is Japanese and is literally "moon sword". 2. In Chinese the label "sword" is never applied to these weapons, they are... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() As far as I am aware these were used by civilians, and were not a military pattern. They have an equivalent in 16th-17th cent. Europe, where they were commonly known as demilune or "half moon". ... |
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![]() Your lance shows signs of age on it, but its configuration is markedly different from the Polish hussar lances that have been published from museum collections as seen in the attached images of... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The production seemed to have continued, at a respectable quality level, after WW II and even post-Mao. On two trips to China during the 1970s, I was taken to artisanal "factories" where various... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Hello, Mahratt! Let's say that the overall shape of these knives can be described as "Chinese-ish" . Or as I like to say, "close but no cigar". Let's see: 1. The blade shape resembles the... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() The style of the motifs themselves, the color scheme, and the workmanship of the cloisonnée are indeed consistent with that medium as seen on any number of curio articles produced in China during... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Jim, I first saw these in great number on my trips to Hong Kong in the mid 1970s, ( even bought a very nice one as resale merch, whose blade was probably wootz based on what appeared from etching). ... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Agreed. These daggers come in a wide variety of configurations, some short swords actually (even with cut-down old Chinese and Japanese blades with clumsily reshaped tips and even pseudo Manchu or... |
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![]() It appears both ways in Buddhist iconography, and both are counted among the 64 sacred emblems on Buddha's foot, as depicted in talismanic representations. |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() This is a spectacular, must-have book for anyone interested in Italian armes-blanches. It can be hard to find, I got my copy at a Czernys auction and find that it was published thanks to... |
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![]() There is also a town called Desenzano del Guarda, on the shores of Lake Guarda, that is not far southeast of Brescia, which is in turn south of Caino. I wonder if Tomaso Gorgonio D had family roots... |
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![]() Jim, Caino is a small town not far north of the city of Brescia, both municipalities being in the eastern part of the region known as Lombardy. There is another Lombard city, Bergamo, located about... |
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![]() Great displays! I like your choice of furniture as well. There are some interesting things about your roncone, the unusually long dorsal spike is a nice touch. These weapons were extremely... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I think they are coins and the dates indicate when they were minted. Note the denomination "20 Lepta". The crown is probably that of the Greek monarchy. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Yes, Ian, it is a problem but so far fairly easy to get around with describing the item in the right way. These outfits process a gazillion parcels daily, so if you do a reasonable job in keeping... |
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![]() In the US, the post and couriers like the object to be named in English, and nuance is everything. So "saber" is more subtle than "sword" and just about any dagger or short sword can pass as... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Hi, Yves Here's advice from a tribal arts dealer in the San Francisco area, who's shipped spears (and the small boat I mentioned previously) and he recommends this: For large things shipped... |
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