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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Panoleon, can you tell us from what part of the world you got your cuirass from ? |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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fernando
![]() Not that this is a vital factor but, no glue was used to fix the hide to the chest piece, but rivets; apparently the male/female style as used in Europe (#11), which does not mean they couldn't be... |
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fernando
![]() My bad; did not pay enough attention to that. Yes, a weight much distant to what you can call a reinforced cuirass. This way the odds split between either the 'blade proof' real thing or a decorative... |
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fernando
![]() No one wants to prove anything, Kubur. If you assume that your grounds have more solidity, no problem with that ! |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Another theme that is not one of my favorites :shrug:. Distance is the business, Jim, distance. At close range, even the weakest of powders may boost a projectile strongly enough to penetrate in a... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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fernando
![]() Here you beat me, Jim; esoterica falls out of my jurisdiction ;). Perhaps those under such influence wouldn't even need to armour the cuirass with iron in the first place ? ;). A bit of a... |
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![]() Tht's a good reasoning; but whatever devices they were, and for whatever reason, the owner found them dispensable. A riddle by itself. |
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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fernando
![]() Given all that has been said, and on a second (third) thought, i would start from square one ... ... In that a guy had a piece of croc hide and decided to make a cuirass with it; a mock one, as for... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Which would be the points fixing the hide to the inner part and those of the cuirass decoration ... . |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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fernando
![]() That would be the item you find in a zillion sources when googling on the subject. But doesn't seem to be one to help defining the the apparatus being discussed. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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fernando
![]() Can we take for certain that the 'nobility' of the outer part, croc hide and elaborated rosettes, has nothing to do with the inner iron lining? I have a problem in digesting that the original owner... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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fernando
![]() I follow Jim's and Colin's path in that one may find traces of outside (European) vestigials of swords but not of local sword production. Madagascar coast was first touched by Europeans when... |
Forum: European Armoury
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fernando
![]() We can read "Adjudant d'Infanterie Modèle 1845". But of course you know that, Norman. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_mod%C3%A8le_1845. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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fernando
![]() A senseless inscription .. and a real silver mark ? :o . |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: European Armoury
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fernando
![]() A truly excelent enlightening of this issue, Mark. Thanks much for sharing. I have tried to keep a close picture of Dom Fernando's sword in Granada but the security guy demanded that i deleted it... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Forum: European Armoury
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fernando
![]() I don't think at all that this would have been the case, given their identity. From top to bottom: the sword of King Fernando, the Catholic, in the Cathedral of Granada; another of Fernando’ swords,... |
Forum: European Armoury
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fernando
![]() Looks like the Spaniards give a better account of their sister pattern high end examples. But you now, a larger country, larger museums, greater rust degradations, larger burial sites ... and... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() You tell me Bruno, once my previous guessings (#25) were not plausible. We should regard the examples represented in the tapistries with some uniformity of style, perhaps the result of their... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Great example, Bruno. Also in the famous Pastrana tapestries, commissioned by King Dom Afonso V, to celebrate conquests in African territory (Arzila, Tangiers) we can see, among plenty weaponry... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Bruno, i certainly disagree with your disagreement, but i agree that we better cease this 'colateral' discussion. As for surviving swords of the period, this is a wonder; they are made of... |
Forum: European Armoury
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fernando
![]() Elementary, my dear Wayne :D. Actually, either the artist made an error of perspective (which i would doubt) or the hypothetical distance between the spare arrows and his hidden hand is far too long;... |
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