Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
5th April 2024, 02:45 AM
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Replies: 4
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd April 2024, 01:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,566
A nice example
It will not surprise me if you discover no break hidden under the reinforcing plates. I have seen such plates on many takouba; the forte is the strongest part of a blade, so breaks there should not...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
1st April 2024, 05:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,016
Whatzit?
This found me at an antique store last week. The serpentine wooden handle is made as two parts, joined by an aluminum sleeve. The small blade appears irregularly serrated. I presume this is a tool...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th March 2024, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,227
Atlatl from where?
Another item a friend recently bought at an upstate New York auction. The overall length is 35 inches. Where is this from?
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2024, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,737
Closest match yet!
Closest match yet! The blade in the original post above is just under 8 inches in length.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th March 2024, 02:51 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,737
Thank you all for your instructive and...
Thank you all for your instructive and educational insights. The blade does seem so entirely utilitarian, so perhaps this carved dress was added to a tool blade for sale to the traveler? I should add...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
16th March 2024, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,737
Presumed Wedung with Figural Hilt
A friend recently acquired this at a local auction. The blade appears very much to be a simple working version of a wedung that has seen use. I seem to recollect discussion of the same entity as...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th March 2024, 09:06 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 1,485
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th March 2024, 04:08 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,399
recent service outage
I have moved these posts to their own thread. More to come on the recent service outage in due course.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th March 2024, 04:19 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,399
You may need to 'refresh' the page in your...
You may need to 'refresh' the page in your browser after calling it up. This is done by clicking the little circle with an arrow to the left of the address in both edge and chrome.
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
26th February 2024, 01:12 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 8,008
Failsafe
I did some further reading after repeating the internet search and find descriptions (roughly translated from Spanish) that the puntilla toros is a essentially a slaughterhouse implement used in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
26th February 2024, 01:55 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 8,008
puntilla toros
Thank you C4RL, after doing an image search, I think that puntilla toros is a very good suggestion. I happened to be at their owner's place earlier today and took another look. The tips thin out...
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Forum: European Armoury
16th February 2024, 01:44 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,454
Just as the crossguard shows darker (more...
Just as the crossguard shows darker (more radiolucent) areas of less density suggesting old weld or fold lines from the forging process, the pommel also likely has such areas within its mass that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
9th February 2024, 02:43 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 4,351
Here is a link to the NMB thread: ...
Here is a link to the NMB thread:
https://www.militaria.co.za/nmb/topic/47763-possible-jingasa/
A jingasa was certainly my own first thought when this item was posted.
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Forum: European Armoury
7th February 2024, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 5
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Forum: European Armoury
6th February 2024, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 6,454
Not inconsistent with an authentic antique
Indeed it does and the terrain is much more treacherous now than when I started collecting such things 40 years ago this month. I believe it has been more than a decade now since I have indulged.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
6th January 2024, 01:08 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,510
A very nice nimcha with respectable age!...
A very nice nimcha with respectable age! Celestial symbols are frequently found on blades made in Europe for export. The crecent moon symbol on this sword is of a form strongly suggesting European...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd January 2024, 01:08 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,397
The texture and corrosion pattern of the blade...
The texture and corrosion pattern of the blade are most convincing for authentic antiquity. Gavin is likely correct and I also hold a suspicion that this might be a portion of a longer sword blade...
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Forum: European Armoury
1st January 2024, 11:12 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,397
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd December 2023, 03:51 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 3,836
I will 'guestimate' that the original poster's...
I will 'guestimate' that the original poster's dagger is from the 1970s. It is an attractive piece of work. When I traveled in the area around 2000, this was already an old style. Our guide cautioned...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th December 2023, 02:04 AM
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Replies: 83
Views: 76,910
You can still see some of the old UBB threads...
You can still see some of the old UBB threads courtesy of the internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Enter one of the URLs above on this page at http://wayback.archive.org/ and it will indicate what...
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Forum: European Armoury
12th December 2023, 09:57 PM
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Replies: 1
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Gold standard provenance
A very nice sword with the added bonus that you know where it has been for over a hundred years! (I tried for the single-edged Viking sword from Christensen's collection when that group came up a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
9th December 2023, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 8,008
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
23rd November 2023, 02:41 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 8,008
Clearly tools, but for what purpose?
A friend recently acquired this trio of sharp, pointy things at an upstate New York auction of a large ethnographic collection. I believe that these started out as files and have been modified to...
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Forum: European Armoury
16th October 2023, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 9,984
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