Polish Obuszek (Axe)

kronckew · 27th May 2015, 10:34 AM

i had my suspicions, but didn't want to prejudice responses. i suspect that as a polish upper class version of a shepard's axe it'd be worth a bit more than i paid for it as an indopersian tabarzin. anyhow it will fit in nicely with my ciupagas and fokoses. i gather polish nobility carried these in battle long after the rest of europe stopped. hungarians used a similar 'obuch'.

my granny was from galecia, at the time austro-hungarian, but at times polish (even independent once) and/or ukrainian. when she spoke to her relatives in wien neustadt she spoke an odd mix of austrian german with as sprinkle of polish. and occasionally english words.

27th May 2015, 10:34 AM	#5
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,215	i had my suspicions, but didn't want to prejudice responses. i suspect that as a polish upper class version of a shepard's axe it'd be worth a bit more than i paid for it as an indopersian tabarzin. anyhow it will fit in nicely with my ciupagas and fokoses. i gather polish nobility carried these in battle long after the rest of europe stopped. hungarians used a similar 'obuch'. my granny was from galecia, at the time austro-hungarian, but at times polish (even independent once) and/or ukrainian. when she spoke to her relatives in wien neustadt she spoke an odd mix of austrian german with as sprinkle of polish. and occasionally english words. Last edited by kronckew; 27th May 2015 at 10:53 AM.