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Old 28th February 2012, 01:51 AM   #1
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Old 28th February 2012, 02:16 AM   #2
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ONE POSSIBLE GOOD SOURCE OF INFORMATION OFTEN OVERLOOKED BY A FORIGN PERSON DOING RESEARCH BY ASKING QUESTIONS, WOULD BE ANY OLD WRITINGS OR RECORDS. THE FORGE MAY HAVE KEPT SOME RECORDS AND DESCRIPTIONS AND IF THE CORRESPONDING RECORDS OF THE SALE SAY TO A CURRENT RULER COULD BE FOUND PERHAPS AN EXAMPLE FROM THE ARSNEL COULD BE FOUND AND LINKLED TO THE NAME USED WHEN PLACEING OR FILLING THE ORDER IN A SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD.
IT WILL TAKE A LOT OF WORK AND THE RECORDS MAY NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE OR DESTROYED BUT THEY WOULD HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF EXISTING THAN THE PEOPLE FROM OVER 100 YEARS AGO. ONE WHO READS AND SPEAKS THE NATIVE LANGUAGE WOULD HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF HUNTING DOWN AND READING SUCH RECORDS.
AS JIM POINTED OUT THE WARRIOR USING THE SWORD MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT NAME FOR IT THAN THE ONE WHO MADE IT. I HAVE A SWORD BY MY BED NAMED RALPH FOR INSTANCE.
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Old 1st March 2012, 09:19 PM   #3
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Re the names of weapons, the earliest collections were for the most part put together as "trophies of arms"by old warriors and soldiers returned from wars and colonial ventures. The names they gave to weapons would be what they used, sometimes in their own language, sometimes mangled versions of the peoples they got the weapons from. And possibly sometimes the term used by soldiers for the gear used by the enemy. Eg, burp gun, sam johnson?, balalaika, tommy gun, flaming onion etc. In the case of "kaskara" the name was possibly bestowed by the humble Tommy Atkins in the field....[( 'cos when they came for you with one of them, your "bowels loosened".) not to be taken too seriously, please. Kaskara oil in 19thC Britain was a well known remedy for constipation]
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Old 2nd March 2012, 06:10 AM   #4
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Thanks, Rick. Sorry I forgot this. Looks like a run of the mill tourist-grade steel. Sharpened up nicely, though.
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Old 2nd March 2012, 03:42 PM   #5
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Thanks Novels .
I think I'm looking at a Koummya form of blade .
I would be more inclined to describe this dagger by its blade form .
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