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29th March 2020, 04:44 PM | #1 |
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Perhaps this link can help http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=Moser :-).
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29th March 2020, 06:19 PM | #2 |
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Gentlemen,
Thank you for your answers and comments. Per Kubur's request, here is a picture of the spine. Teodor |
29th March 2020, 08:09 PM | #3 |
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Teodor,
This peshkabz might be quite old: one scale replaced, the rhino one has repairs ( multiple rivets). I ‘d not be surprised if it dated to 18th century. I was intrigued by the earlier statement about the size of the rivets because of Flindt’s statement. I have handled quite a few supposedly Central Asian peshkabzes with simple wooden handles and seemingly large rivets about 6-8 mm in diameter. All of them in fact had regular size rivets with washers around them or just sat in the middle of larger shallow indentations of that size covered with some materiel ( most often mother-of -pearl). We can see it on your pesh’s handle on one of the lower rivets with a missing cover. The idea of 6-8 mm rivets doesn’t make sense to me: it would require 6-8 mm holes in the tang, side by side in the upper and lower rows, significantly weakening it. I might be wrong but would love to see examples with solid rivets of that size. |
29th March 2020, 08:35 PM | #4 |
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I went through the links to our 2005 discussions
Gosh, how much have we learned since.... |
29th March 2020, 10:46 PM | #5 |
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Is that a forging fold line on the spine?
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29th March 2020, 11:03 PM | #6 |
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Doesn't look like it: seems like just a carved channel.
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30th March 2020, 06:45 AM | #7 |
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I can confirm that the spine has an intentionally carved channel.
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