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Old 16th April 2007, 06:03 PM   #1
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Two old blades.
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Old 16th April 2007, 09:29 PM   #2
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The blades look like Palestinian Shibriyas. How big are they?
Very peculiar...
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Old 16th April 2007, 10:00 PM   #3
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Overall length 23 cm .
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Old 16th April 2007, 10:27 PM   #4
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Jordan,Israel,Palestine,Syria type area.

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Old 16th April 2007, 10:30 PM   #5
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I have seen blades very similar to these , I'm afraid there is a possibillity that these are from an agricultural cutting machine or similar (combine harvester ?) ...they also had the 3 rivet holes
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Any pix or links katana?

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Old 16th April 2007, 10:56 PM   #7
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Hi Spiral,
I saw some similar to these at an auction....I thought they were unusual blades...because of the three 'fixing holes'. Luckily a 'farmer type' informed me they were 'cutters' from a farm machine.
I saw 3 'ethnic spearheads' on eBay, recently, with the same rivet hole pattern...but not with curved blades (long tapering triangle)....but these had remnants of green paint

I could be totally wrong about these....but the wear marks around the rivet holes suggests great force elongated the holes and ripped the rivets out....

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Old 17th April 2007, 12:13 AM   #8
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Come to think of it, you might be right: there still is a big lug nut in one of the holes. Where is the handle it was attached to?
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Old 23rd April 2007, 08:30 PM   #9
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I'd really like to see these industrial/powered blades that are being discussed. THese look like shabrias; an awful lot like shabrias. The holes appear, BTW, to have been hand-punched, not drilled, and this is responsible for the ridgelike formation around them. Note the marks at the blade base of the one which still contains a rivet (? does not look like a bolt to me?), and its hand forged shoulders. The other seems to have a groove running out the end of its handle; trick of the light? Corrosion?
The cross-section seems to be flattened diamond with rather fine edges, judging from the damage?
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.....a possibillity that these are from an agricultural cutting machine or similar (combine harvester ?) ...they also had the 3 rivet holes
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I could be totally wrong about these....but the wear marks around the rivet holes suggests great force elongated the holes and ripped the rivets out....

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Note the marks at the blade base of the one which still contains a rivet (? does not look like a bolt to me?),


EDITED Sorry Tom I have just realised you were refering to a bolt mentioned in another post on this subject. The missing 'tang' appears to have been 'sheared' off .....a lot of force would be required to have done this...
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