20th October 2020, 12:25 PM | #1 |
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East Indian Axe? For comment:
Just acquired this at auction today. Looks like a bulova axe variant. Not your common one tho. The Sheet steel reinforcing sleeve looks a bit like the one on my moustache axe. Upper serrated end and lack of a brass finial at the top is a bit unusual I think. Bulbous ribbed socket looks mace-like. Can this be a bullova, orsomething else?
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20th October 2020, 01:20 PM | #2 |
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Nice piece Wayne, well done. I saw it but did not bid. Guess it must be from the Chota Nagpur area ?
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20th October 2020, 05:00 PM | #3 | |
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20th October 2020, 09:42 PM | #4 |
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Do you think it may have started like this one?
If the end piece of the wooden shaft split or broke they may have inserted a "cap" into the crown at the top. Regards Roy |
20th October 2020, 10:43 PM | #5 | |
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Sure and yours was probably caped with a brass or iron finial. |
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21st October 2020, 09:39 AM | #6 |
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Anything's possible, my new one's haft looks like there is a deliberately short wider undercut section not seen on the ones with the long conical finials. Kind of like a checker nailed to a narrower cylinder. (Might even be 2 part like that in reality, will know on arrival)
The heads are in any case, all set from the butt up into a slight increasing taper at the top, like a tomahawk, rather than top down like a western axe. |
24th October 2020, 02:32 PM | #7 |
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An extract from W. O. Oldman "Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens" showing different blades forms of this type of axe.
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