Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2024, 03:20 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2024, 02:49 AM
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see...
see https://www.jbmilitaryantiques.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201013_120012-1320x969.jpg
for examples of 5 ball hilt with pillow pommel and reeded grip ...This grip was exceptional for...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 11:52 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 02:28 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 04:58 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 02:43 AM
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Thomas Gill .. Famous Birmingham Sword Maker.
Adding to my previous post ...
This type of weapon, which was preferred
by Naval Officers, is well documented in various sword collecting books such as Bill Glikerson’s, “Boarder’s
Away“ on page...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 02:31 AM
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Thomas Gill .. Famous Birmingham Sword Maker.
https://landandseacollection.com/id564.html Shows some excellent swords from this stable. The Sword shown (SOLD)is an excellent example of a Naval Officers Hanger..Gill marked his blades with a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd March 2024, 02:27 AM
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Hello Marc,
I agree it is very odd how they...
Hello Marc,
I agree it is very odd how they appear to have been made. I almost never encountered single piece blades. Joining the two plates of blade seems peculiar but that is how they were...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st March 2024, 07:55 PM
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Yemeni Daggers.
I refer readers to the excellent detail contained at https://www.orientations.com.hk/highlights/forging-a-legacy-the-jambiya-yemens-iconic-weapon
In addition Forum library has work on The Omani...
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Forum: European Armoury
12th March 2024, 12:10 AM
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Lead Cutter??
I was a bit baffled by this terminology but I get it now... Wikipedia states Quote.
"The lead cutter sword was a weapon modelled on the cutlass, designed for use in shows and demonstrations of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th February 2024, 10:22 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th February 2024, 11:08 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th February 2024, 10:01 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th February 2024, 11:34 PM
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Hello Triarii, Until Keith produced his book on...
Hello Triarii, Until Keith produced his book on the Shotley Bridge Swordmakers I didnt really know much about the English involvement in sword making either there or in Hounslow...That was rather a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd February 2024, 11:02 PM
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In none of the blades ...Butin shows almost 50...
In none of the blades ...Butin shows almost 50 examples, the designs copied are not of blades but of Hilts... Especially in the case of big broad highly decorated European blades too heavy for the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 06:23 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 01:07 PM
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Just to end on a scenic note on The Indian Ocean
The Cultural aspect of the Lingua Franka was the vital ingredient on design flow of technology weapons building design clothing food jewelery music dance poetry religion in fact almost every aspect...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 12:59 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 12:09 PM
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Just adding a few words about the applied decoration and what I have identified as a sort of Royal Signature on Omani and Zanzibari weapons... and this work applied using quite...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 12:04 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 11:58 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 01:50 AM
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Dear Ian, For the time being I am pleased to...
Dear Ian, For the time being I am pleased to leave this work in the realms of Forum for discussion but welcome your remarks . In my 40 yers in Oman I was intrigued by this sword form as well as the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 12:56 AM
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This thread is almost tied to...
This thread is almost tied to http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=21833 where many other clues are situated. I reccommend both threads be viewed as there are overlapping and interlinked...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 12:27 AM
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Posts 19 and 24 and several others with partial...
Posts 19 and 24 and several others with partial details on the likely linkages across the Nimcha range including Butins charts (displaying nearly 50 Variants) are here on this thread...The Pallasch...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th February 2024, 04:39 PM
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Hello Fernando,
Thanks for your...
Hello Fernando,
Thanks for your post. Yes I have seen your reference which also states the case for spoken Arabic. Quote"Arabic was used as a lingua franca across the Islamic...
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