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Two nice spears, African?
An Auction on eBay for two interesting spears, (now finished), has anyone any ideas of their origin?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1 |
These are nice and from the Congo and I only lost them because I forgot the seller was using $ so my bid was not as high as I was thinking :mad: Tim
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Just as I was bidding, the price shot up, couldn't get a counter bid in quick enough......ran out of time. The hazards of 'Sniping' :mad:
Do you think the (copper/brass/bronze ?) spear was 'currency' or ceremonial? |
Most probably both, these are very nice but 19 century is quite an exaggeration. That was me but I thought I was bidding in £ so you see I rather fancied them.
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My taste in African weapons must be improving ;)
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Nice spears.
The one on the left is a spear of the Yakoma-tribe from Congo. The other one, I'm not sure about. Look at this pic from 'Waffen aus Zentral-Afrika' : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...numan/0176.jpg |
Yet, more similar spears on eBay, bidding now finished ...missed them by a few euros, I'm beginning to think there's a little workshop somewhere mass producing them ;)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1 |
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