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![]() Pike heads, 1500s. Armour piercing. Congratulations. They are beautiful! |
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![]() Given the modest length and probable stiffness of the blade it is likely an infantryman’s sword. It would be used for close quarter fighting and need thrust and well as cut capabilities. It looks... |
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![]() As a Swede I don’t particularly recognize the decorations as traditional viking style. Look more Celtic to me. Could it be an Irish iron age sword? Also looks like some kind of strange baton depicted... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Great to see this sword in all its beauty. At first glance it looks like a “35” clumsily inscribed on the guard. The rounded bits of these digits are obviously challenging for a non-professional... |
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![]() Yes, there’s the thumb ring. Certainly looks like a Solingen blade. Lovely inscriptions. The crosses look more like x and have been stamped into the sword so look less ecclestial than I expected. The... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Congratulations on your felddegen! I especially like the ones with the running wolf and auspicious numbers on the blade. I haven’t seen many with a pewter grip like that and wonder if it was a... |
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![]() Statue of Charles Martel at château de Versailles in France, 19thC. Read an article about Charles Martel, saw the illustration, spotted the axe. |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() The Franks used battle axes as well. Charlemagne expanded Christianity in the Pannonian region. Hence the Germanic/Gothic influence in that part of the world. Byzance through Constantinople exerted... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Could it be a chemical reaction to something inside the scabbard? |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Records show hundreds of dussägge produced in Styria, Austria during the Ottoman wars. Some were stored in the armoury in Graz and some were probably distributed to the local farmers to defend... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Yes those ebay items look more dubious. I don’t think I would consider buying something “excavated” on ebay, especially not from Bulgaria and E.Europe. The item under discussion looks more... |
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![]() I’m not too familiar with Byzantine arms and armour. Archaelogical finds suggest that vikings serving Constantinople often used their personal arms (swords and axes), but I can’t rule out that they... |
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![]() The National History Museum of Slovenia sword in Ljubljana is 15thC Gothic. I also found a picture of halberds with perforated crosses in the Armoury in Graz, Austria. I would argue that the axe... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: European Armoury
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![]() That axe head looks fearsome! :eek: Merry Christmas to you, and hope this is something Santa gave you. I saw a sword with a perforated cross on the crossguard and polearms with trefoil... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() King Christian IV purchased a large number of German dussägge to arm Norwegian farmers. It’s not impossible that some might have found their way to India. The blades sometimes look very similar, even... |
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![]() Merry Christmas to all. Stay safe and enjoy the season wherever you are. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Blades show an interesting similarity with 16thC Styrian dusägge sabres. The Indian ones seem slightly more curved. Also some of the fullers are similar to dussägge in some cases. |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Thank you for posting that publication! We have tried to fit the sword into a possible colonial context given its basic and slightly unusual appearance. The idea is that swords were modified or... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Are you arguing that this is a conventional European 18thC blade where lamination patterns were revealed due to thorough cleaning and chemical treatment? Can you show us any more examples? :confused: |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I would love to learn more about this subject, too. Have you seen this https://www.hema-minsk2019.org/base_blog/2019/5/8/focus-on-the-objects-of-the-exhibition-part-3? In the bibliography it... |
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![]() Yes a great piece. If not a local Indian blade I wonder if it could be a local Malay or Filipino Moro pattern welded blade? Or maybe Jim is right that this could be an experimental Frankish/viking... |
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Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Could it be a Portuguese colonial cuphilt with Indian pattern welded blade used in Goa? |
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