Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th June 2025, 05:23 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
11th June 2025, 05:17 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
11th June 2025, 04:39 PM
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This is a brilliant observation!! and Detlef,...
This is a brilliant observation!! and Detlef, these topics are by no means typically in my field of study either....this is all a learning curve, and its amazing having everyone come in with...
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Forum: European Armoury
9th June 2025, 02:26 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
8th June 2025, 09:23 PM
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Takouba/alguinar West Africa -marking conundrum
Another flight into the ether,
From the beginning, I have always been fascinated by markings, symbols and inscriptions on sword blades. While obviously these were typically aligned with a makers...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th June 2025, 05:13 PM
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Hunting swords et al
This is a magnificent example Deflef! and a most curious anomaly.
As Mark has noted, the staghorn grips, three rivets, correspond to the hunting swords/knives of the 16th into 17th century, and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
7th June 2025, 09:16 PM
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Replies: 12
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Sboula/Zanzibar
Terms for ethnographic arms are typically problematic, and for many years here we have referred to these NAME GAMES (not many younger folks here likely recall Shirley Ellis!) as just that, banana...
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Forum: European Armoury
7th June 2025, 07:46 PM
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Court sword style
This is a beautiful example of a court sword (small swords were typically with bilobate shell guards) in a form that evolved from hunting sword style hilts of earlier in 18th c. in the latter part of...
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Forum: European Armoury
7th June 2025, 04:54 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
7th June 2025, 04:02 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
6th June 2025, 05:40 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 11,794
Wisely noted guys!
Education thus knowledge is...
Wisely noted guys!
Education thus knowledge is by no means not typically free. Even if not formally achieved the hard knocks and nicks have costs, whether financial or other.
I used to console...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th June 2025, 05:34 PM
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Mark and Keith, thank you guys so much for...
Mark and Keith, thank you guys so much for answering!!! :)
As noted, this 'double' guard was always perplexing to me.....its kinda like a regular cross guard PLUS a cup! Almost as if the Spaniards,...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th June 2025, 12:11 AM
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Replies: 21
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All very good points, and there is decidedly a...
All very good points, and there is decidedly a difference between reproductions and fakes. Reproductions are made to represent examples of certain sword forms for collectors who wish to assemble...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th June 2025, 07:20 PM
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Replies: 10
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Hardly a long read to me :) (Tolstoy here!) ...
Hardly a long read to me :) (Tolstoy here!)
Excellent research and I think most plausible deductions, and I think there is a great deal of misunderstanding about actual swordsmiths and cutlers. Then...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th June 2025, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 67
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No problem Teodor :) I of course remember, and...
No problem Teodor :) I of course remember, and was hesitant as I placed my notes, as the contentious situation with these has remained so, and very much unresolved. Knowing that you have researched...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th June 2025, 03:41 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th June 2025, 02:32 AM
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Replies: 67
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For what its worth, in my view, as mentioned...
For what its worth, in my view, as mentioned earlier responding to the question on the 'nimcha' of Mwinyi Mkuu, the sword depicted in likely a combination of a nimcha hilt with Persian crossguard and...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd June 2025, 09:43 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd June 2025, 06:11 PM
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For comparison
This is another koftgari embellished Mughal tulwar from N. India, likely Delhi, late 18th c. into early 19th.
It has notable similarity but not the inscribed characters on the hilt.
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd June 2025, 05:58 PM
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Fantastic grouping CC!!!!!
Seen together like...
Fantastic grouping CC!!!!!
Seen together like this really puts perspective to the circumstances at hand with naval warfare. As noted, while the pike may not be chronologically correct but that is...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd June 2025, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 6
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That fantastic Ed!! Thank you so much for this...
That fantastic Ed!! Thank you so much for this most valuable information!!
I had thought this was used as some sort of organizational standard but was unclear if used in combat formations or not....
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd June 2025, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 21
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd June 2025, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 21
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I think we all agree that we should have an...
I think we all agree that we should have an awareness of the many fake items circulating and how to recognize them as compared to authentic antiques.
Perhaps the best way to represent these in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
1st June 2025, 09:10 PM
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Replies: 67
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Mwinyi Mkuu (Muhammed bin Ahmed al Alawi,...
Mwinyi Mkuu (Muhammed bin Ahmed al Alawi, 1785-1865) was the last of the line of Shaziri rulers in Zanzibar.
Mkuu was a Tanzanian term for hereditary ruler.
The Shazadas were dynastic rulers of...
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Forum: European Armoury
1st June 2025, 08:29 PM
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