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Forum: Keris Warung Kopi
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![]() I don't know about kerises, but the two cuts were made at a later time by mechanical means (most likely by sawing or grinding). |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Yep. This is also my first choice. With the observation that the old blade could have been remounted somewhere in the 20th century as well. While I somehow agree with Mahratt that the wootz... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() The hilts are very crudely made and assembly is very sloppy. The way the disproportioned hilt of the second sword is riveted is appalling, with the rivets protruding like bad jokes. In my opinion... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Thank you very much! :) The blade appears to be laminated so I assume it is local production. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I recently got this Badik. Is it from Java? Van somebody make sense of the inscription and punch mark? |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Hello, I have two African weapons to ID. First, 40 cam long axe. Second, 51 cm long mace. |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() I believe that these high quality wootz blades were re-mounted in the late 19th century. Does anyone have precise information when wootz stopped being produced in India?! |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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![]() Mughal India, yes. However, from all I know by 19th century the production of quality wootz pretty much stopped in India, and this blade displays a very nice Kara Taban pattern. So my guess is that... |
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Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 33
Views: 584
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![]() Why surprised?! With all this Covid-19 crisis, with mandatory quarantine and PCR tests did you expect him to visit more often?! :shrug: |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 584
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![]() "Culo casto" is definitely a posibility. And an interesting one. In this case the different heights of the letters might be for esthetic reasons. :shrug: Regarding your classification for... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 33
Views: 584
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![]() Capital letters or not, they are of different height and I believe that's because they signal the beginning of a new abbreviated word. And to make everything more complicated, one must first guess... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 33
Views: 584
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![]() You are in fact making my point! Swept hilt, Pappenheim, cup hilt, clam shell hilt and ring hilt are ALL typical and DEFINING rapier hilts. Moreover, some later 17th century Spanish rapiers had... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 33
Views: 584
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![]() Because they are not "rapier blades"... :) The rapier is defined by both the blade and the hilt... or at least for me. :shrug: |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 584
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![]() While most frequently smallswords had hollow triangular blades, diamond and flattened hexagonal blades were also common. |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 584
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![]() Even if it is 92 cm long blade, that doensn't make it a rapier, but a large smallsword. And yes, the new photo shows better the proportions... but more images may shed more light. The lower line... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() It is Cupid! two hearts and two names Simon and Vio (from Violetta). And it is a smallsword all day (look at the proportions between the length of the hilt and the length of the blade). :cool: |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 17
Views: 950
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![]() I can clearly see the recurved (consisting of two opposing curves) shape like a Yathagan. Here below they are! The first curve defines a concavity of the edge, the second a convexity. So I think... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 17
Views: 950
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![]() Yep, sossun pattah but I am not familiar with this type of blade. But I can distinguish some kind of Indian ricasso. :shrug: |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Views: 3,446
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![]() I would say it IS wootz. He used bearing steel as the base metal but re-melted it in a crucible, changed its carbon content, and ended up with wootz. Yet, the pattern is very different from the... |
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,446
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![]() Great! It would be interesting to see the pattern you have on your new blade and see how does it compare to the antique wootz. Is it from the Finnish blacksmith who claims to have reproduced the... |
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