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Forum: European Armoury 5th November 2024, 02:12 AM
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Posted By M ELEY
Thank you for this information, Jim. I know we...

Thank you for this information, Jim. I know we had a very long and contested thread I started back in 2012 concerning folding knives at sea. As I recall, we were split down the middle. I, for one,...
Forum: European Armoury 4th November 2024, 03:19 PM
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Posted By M ELEY
Hey, I think I figured out what we are looking at...

Hey, I think I figured out what we are looking at in that museum chart. Post # 4, Figure 148, the 'sailor's sword', is hinged. This was probably a sketch of a very large navaja 'knife',...
Forum: European Armoury 4th November 2024, 12:32 AM
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Posted By M ELEY
Yes! There's the clip point so popular on these...

Yes! There's the clip point so popular on these cutlass types. Indeed, the Dutch klewang, modeled after it's Indonesian namesake, is a perfect example of how both Eastern and Asian patterns had an...
Forum: European Armoury 3rd November 2024, 02:31 AM
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Posted By M ELEY
Talking Clipped points...

:D Yeah. Wayne, you don't recognize that classic 'sailor's cutlass'? I think they used them in 'Water World' :rolleyes:


Jim's point was (dismissing the titles from that page) that the clipped...
Forum: European Armoury 2nd November 2024, 04:08 AM
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Posted By M ELEY
Smile Thanks for coming in on this one, Jim. I know we...

Thanks for coming in on this one, Jim. I know we talked at length about this sword and others with the clipped point. Gilkerson includes in his 'Boarders Away I: With Steel' the so-called Baltimore...
Forum: European Armoury 1st November 2024, 06:17 PM
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Posted By M ELEY
More photos...

I guess what I'm saying is, these types are not to everyone's taste and I get that. As a collector of maritime items, though. these really speak to me. They are not shiny and clean. No officer or...
Forum: European Armoury 1st November 2024, 06:10 PM
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Views: 10,507
Posted By M ELEY
Cutlass continued

Some might call these essatz types 'uglu ducklings', but I love them. Plus, I think it is monumentally important to consider when it is appropriate for an authentic item to be piece-meal made. If I...
Forum: European Armoury 1st November 2024, 05:50 PM
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Views: 10,507
Posted By M ELEY
Revolutionary War to Federalist period cutlass

My newest acquisition from the Shanendoah region of Virginia not too far from the Chesapeake Bay. Here we have an excellent representation of a primitive American-made cutlass which I'm estimating...
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