Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th May 2025, 05:30 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
14th May 2025, 07:36 AM
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Nimcha is just a collective term for these...
Nimcha is just a collective term for these Maghrebi sa'ifs, not technically correct, as often the case with the terms collectors and writers describing them over a century. The term nimcha supposedly...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th May 2025, 09:43 PM
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Thank you Yuri :) It is always fun to solve (or...
Thank you Yuri :) It is always fun to solve (or try) mysteries. It is doubtful anyone has records of these often variously configured markings as to what meaning they might have had. Makers tended to...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th May 2025, 06:34 PM
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Completely in accord, and Teodor IMO few people...
Completely in accord, and Teodor IMO few people know 'nimchas' as you do.
As noted, European marks were copied profusely, and often added to the European blades already filtering into North African...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th April 2025, 07:29 PM
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Hi Maurice,
Keep in mind that the blades used...
Hi Maurice,
Keep in mind that the blades used on these were invariably from many sources, most typically those entering the North African sphere as trade commodities. As with most ethnographic...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2025, 04:55 PM
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Maurice, perfect entry!!! and of course not at...
Maurice, perfect entry!!! and of course not at all 'interfering' !! The idea here is discussion not just of one example, but of the form in general to see and learn from the scope of examples shared....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th April 2025, 04:57 AM
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LOL! good one werecow :)
Well noted that this...
LOL! good one werecow :)
Well noted that this clearly desperate attempt at the fabled ANDREA FERARA inscription is far from the mark by a native individual in one of the countless trade entrepots...
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