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11th December 2010, 07:22 PM
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Location: Dortmund, Germany
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Awwww, and i thought i would add something new
 But i will see if i can figure out who FK and HK were, i already have an idea whom to ask. Attached some more knipps i found lying around... Greetings from Siegen, Thilo |
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11th December 2010, 09:28 PM
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More images of decorated hippen - good to meet another enthusiast...
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11th December 2010, 09:44 PM
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and a few more - the 1914 one is en route from DE to GB....
Another name I found is rubenkopfbeil - which I believe roughly translates to beet head axe i.e. a beet trimming knife, but I think this is an error as they are not so ornate and do not have a 'beak' I note many of these hippen (especially those from the Bayern region) have blades with a single bevel, like a side axe... What tasks were they used for??? Similar tools are found in France and also some parts of England - in France coppice work is called taillis - Google gives a translation of coppice to niederwald in German Last edited by Billman; 11th December 2010 at 09:59 PM. |
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