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Old 24th January 2007, 02:07 AM   #11
Jim McDougall
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Joe, nice work showing those!! I was hoping someone out there had an illustration of these and I wanted to see what they looked like. These definitely look 'business like' and pretty intimidating. Thank you for posting these !

Hello B.I. its great to hear from you, and I had hoped you might have that Sothebys catalog and I rather suspected they might be as you note, disappointing as they are so late. I'm glad you are on board with the regional assessment as well on the spear, but am wondering , by the term 'elephant spear' would this be meant as to be used from the crews aboard the elephant to use from that height, or were these to kill elephants, possibly directed at underbelly? I personally wouldn't want to be even that close to an enraged elephant!

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Jim
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