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15th August 2012, 06:37 PM
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next up are these two 'hilts', in which one has a circular hole for the tang, while the other has a rectangular hole where the tang passes.
i put quote marks on the word hilt above, because i have doubts whether these are hilts at all. but for the time being, let's go by what the museum says. |
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15th August 2012, 06:39 PM
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now this is a real nice gold hilt. and the tang hole is clearly a square.
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15th August 2012, 06:41 PM
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the tang hole in this one is unique -- it's triangular!
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15th August 2012, 06:43 PM
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this guy i totally missed when i went to the museum this morning. we will see later.
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15th August 2012, 06:46 PM
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another rectangular tang hole, and part of the tang can actually be seen on the specimen.
note: all these pics i'm posting are being cobbled from various sources, but i personally checked out the specimens at the museums, to find out the inferred tang shapes. |
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15th August 2012, 06:47 PM
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this hilt is too crumpled and damaged. thus it was impossible to find out what the tang's shape was.
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15th August 2012, 06:49 PM
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this one has a circular hole where the tang passes.
to summarize, as far as these 10th to 13th century a.d. gold hilts are concerned, the vast majority would have inferred square or rectangular tangs. |
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