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Tim Simmons · 6th February 2016, 05:10 PM

I wonder you might have quite a rare blade. In the Grassi museum Leipzig I came across this spear. Yes the blade is a little smaller and has some inlay decoration. However we know that weapon forms morph but tend to still show or hint at a cultural origin , I do not think that is an odd thing to suggest. Your blade like many blades with with appears unfinished hilts/handles so the blade can be easily transformed from one weapon to another, reach or close in. This spear from the Asian Arctic does many points of similarity in the origin of form. Yours is slightly fullerd but ethno weapons always have much variation. Worth thinking about. Like those Taiwanese blades. The pics will have to wait a bit I am not clever enough at the moment with this devise.

6th February 2016, 05:10 PM	#5
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,739	I wonder you might have quite a rare blade. In the Grassi museum Leipzig I came across this spear. Yes the blade is a little smaller and has some inlay decoration. However we know that weapon forms morph but tend to still show or hint at a cultural origin , I do not think that is an odd thing to suggest. Your blade like many blades with with appears unfinished hilts/handles so the blade can be easily transformed from one weapon to another, reach or close in. This spear from the Asian Arctic does many points of similarity in the origin of form. Yours is slightly fullerd but ethno weapons always have much variation. Worth thinking about. Like those Taiwanese blades. The pics will have to wait a bit I am not clever enough at the moment with this devise.