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26th October 2010, 11:36 PM
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That is quite the nice array of dao! Very nice Royston, Thanks for sharing! I haven't seen on the forum a picture of the different varieties side by side like that...great reference of these type of dao!
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27th October 2010, 12:05 AM
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Wow. Amazing collections. Thank you for sharing.
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30th October 2010, 01:51 PM
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lovely items Royston. Some nice variations there i hadnt seen before.
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1st November 2010, 03:38 AM
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Love these swords. here are three more. The bottom two both have the bone caps and the blades show single hairpin lamination.
The top one is a simple lamination. i assume the wound metal band and the nail holding it are not original. Emanuel |
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1st November 2010, 06:38 PM
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Location: Solihull, UK
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is the consensus that these things are general purpose blades or strictly fighting swords of the kachin people? Seem abit unwieldy for anything other than cleaving human sized objects in two to me!!!
Last edited by carlitobrigante; 2nd November 2010 at 01:24 AM. |
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