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Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() Sorry to say, and I wouldn't mind if someone else out there disagrees, but my gut tells me that this is a recently-assembled composite of new and old parts. The proportions of the guard, and its... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() I must respectfully disagree. If it was made as percussion, why would there be that unmistakable shaped "platform" on the forward end of the lockplate that is of ideal shape to support a... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() Maybe there were no elephants inhabiting their clan turf. :shrug: |
Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() Years ago I read in Wallace's Scottish Swords and Daggers that most Highland hilts were originally made with an applied finish -- russeting (akin to the browning used on contemporaneous firearms)... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() Interesting. Looks like a recycled European saber blade? I'm wondering about the hilt, especially the grip/pommel junction. Front end of grip is darkened and shows wear from age, whereas rear... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 1,208
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Philip
![]() Yes, the profile of the serpentine is reminiscent but the lockplate outline is not. The lockplate on the example you posted has a profile somewhat like a European flintlock of the 17th cent. onward.... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() Those markings in the blade fullers ring a bell, I've seen them before... Like on military manufacture from early- mid 20th cent. Spain -- Fábrica Nacional de Toledo, or the Santa Bárbara arsenal at... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 849
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Philip
![]() The globose thickening at the base of the points will not serve as stops for a boar-spear head. These things will keep going on in and Hogzilla will be on top of the hunter in a flash. Take a... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 12
Views: 950
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Philip
![]() I don't see why this thing couldn't serve equally well as a farm tool or a weapon. I'm thinking of its Okinawan equivalent, with has a martial technique developed for it (used singly or in each... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 1,208
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Philip
![]() Here is an example of a very early (for a Spanish patilla-style miquelet), ca 1630, made in Brescia, Italy. It has both half- and full-cock sears but getting back to your comment, note that it is... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() The stock designed to rest against the cheek, not shoulder. Just like on German wheellocks, and most Far Eastern / Malay matchlocks. The polygonal rifling is useful in a smaller bore like this. ... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 1,208
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Philip
![]() Thanks, Ulrik. The essentials of this mechanism, i.e the action of an external spring on the hammer and the means of release from cocked position, can be traced to Central Europe, possibly south... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 592
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Philip
![]() The only letter that is distinguishably Cyrillic is the backward N which is equivalent to the Latin I. The lower case i and o are common to Greek and Latin miniscule. |
Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() 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... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Philip
![]() 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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Views: 1,208
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Philip
![]() 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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Replies: 21
Views: 1,109
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Philip
![]() 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... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Philip
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 1,109
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Philip
![]() 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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Philip
![]() 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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Philip
![]() 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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Views: 1,109
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Philip
![]() 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". ... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 4,125
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Philip
![]() 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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Views: 2,776
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Philip
![]() 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... |
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