Forum: European Armoury
8th May 2024, 03:04 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
7th May 2024, 12:06 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd May 2024, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 20
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The bright spots on the OP's blade in linear...
The bright spots on the OP's blade in linear groups remind me of nie or larger martensite crystals that may be seen in Japanese swords. David's attribution to quenching effects is probably correct.
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Forum: European Armoury
29th April 2024, 12:51 PM
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Replies: 5
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Thank you Gentlemen!
I acquired this knife...
Thank you Gentlemen!
I acquired this knife about two decades ago at the London Park Lane Arms Fair from a then regularly participating dealer.
I will prepare an image of the butt end of the...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th April 2024, 07:21 PM
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Replies: 5
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Scottish Sgian Dubh?
Not only a little too big to be the small knife carried in a dirk's scabbard but also having its own hardened leather sheath makes me suspect this is a sgian dubh. Unfortunately, the cap of the hilt...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 05:25 PM
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Replies: 4
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Scottish Dirk, dated 1785
I was watching Kidnapped last night, admiring the dirks and remembered this example dated 1785 on the hard leather sheath. Overall sheathed length 46.3 cm with a 33.3 cm blade that becomes...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th April 2024, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 8
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Another variation on the same theme
I believe this example, framed under glass perhaps to deter young hands, dates to the Vietnam War era. An inscription on the back is faded, but this appears to have been sent by a serviceman in the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th April 2024, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 9
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xasterix, I really like your kris!
I have...
xasterix, I really like your kris!
I have always been intrigued by the similarities between Moro twist core kris and spears and early to mid medieval European pattern-welded blades. In the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st April 2024, 11:03 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
5th April 2024, 02:45 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd April 2024, 01:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 8,068
A nice example
It will not surprise me if you discover no break hidden under the reinforcing plates. I have seen such plates on many takouba; the forte is the strongest part of a blade, so breaks there should not...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
1st April 2024, 05:45 PM
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Replies: 4
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Whatzit?
This found me at an antique store last week. The serpentine wooden handle is made as two parts, joined by an aluminum sleeve. The small blade appears irregularly serrated. I presume this is a tool...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th March 2024, 02:37 PM
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Atlatl from where?
Another item a friend recently bought at an upstate New York auction. The overall length is 35 inches. Where is this from?
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2024, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 6
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Closest match yet!
Closest match yet! The blade in the original post above is just under 8 inches in length.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2024, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,037
Thank you all for your instructive and...
Thank you all for your instructive and educational insights. The blade does seem so entirely utilitarian, so perhaps this carved dress was added to a tool blade for sale to the traveler? I should add...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th March 2024, 05:54 PM
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Presumed Wedung with Figural Hilt
A friend recently acquired this at a local auction. The blade appears very much to be a simple working version of a wedung that has seen use. I seem to recollect discussion of the same entity as...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th March 2024, 09:06 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th March 2024, 04:08 PM
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Replies: 5
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recent service outage
I have moved these posts to their own thread. More to come on the recent service outage in due course.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th March 2024, 04:19 PM
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Replies: 5
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You may need to 'refresh' the page in your...
You may need to 'refresh' the page in your browser after calling it up. This is done by clicking the little circle with an arrow to the left of the address in both edge and chrome.
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
26th February 2024, 01:12 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 9,724
Failsafe
I did some further reading after repeating the internet search and find descriptions (roughly translated from Spanish) that the puntilla toros is a essentially a slaughterhouse implement used in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
26th February 2024, 01:55 AM
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Replies: 12
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puntilla toros
Thank you C4RL, after doing an image search, I think that puntilla toros is a very good suggestion. I happened to be at their owner's place earlier today and took another look. The tips thin out...
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Forum: European Armoury
16th February 2024, 01:44 AM
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Replies: 31
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Just as the crossguard shows darker (more...
Just as the crossguard shows darker (more radiolucent) areas of less density suggesting old weld or fold lines from the forging process, the pommel also likely has such areas within its mass that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th February 2024, 02:43 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 8,395
Here is a link to the NMB thread: ...
Here is a link to the NMB thread:
https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/47763-possible-jingasa/
A jingasa was certainly my own first thought when this item was posted.
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Forum: European Armoury
7th February 2024, 01:14 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
6th February 2024, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 10,737
Not inconsistent with an authentic antique
Indeed it does and the terrain is much more treacherous now than when I started collecting such things 40 years ago this month. I believe it has been more than a decade now since I have indulged.
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