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Old 24th December 2009, 05:35 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by freebooter
Your right, you can not determine on image alone but based on your posting here David;
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ino+knobkerrie
There are some amazing similarities.

Gav

G'day Gav,
I have seen pictures of a few 'small' knobkerries that looked 95% certain to be Rhino horn.....only to discover they were a very 'tight', fine grained wood . Hopefully, Warren will post the result of the 'hot' pin test and let us know. If Rhino horn....is must have been a piece cut 'across' the horn (cross section).....which must have been quite large in diameter, perhaps from the root/base of the horn
My knobkerrie was made from a 'lengthway' section.

All the best
David
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