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Forum: European Armoury 2nd December 2025, 07:10 PM
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Views: 1,333
Posted By Jim McDougall
You bet Murph! glad to have you here!! I...

You bet Murph! glad to have you here!!
I finally excavated my 'Neumann' (its hell in an RV trying to find stuff!) and it seems these blades with this blockish fuller starting at the blade root were...
Forum: European Armoury 2nd December 2025, 12:21 PM
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Views: 4,846
Posted By Jim McDougall
This is valuable information Yuri, and...

This is valuable information Yuri, and interesting to see the potential for the even later use of these sabers by Uhlan regiments. The single carry ring I think suggests use later in 19th into 20th...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 1st December 2025, 11:02 PM
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Views: 1,832
Posted By Jim McDougall
What a fascinating topic Ian! and the example you...

What a fascinating topic Ian! and the example you show is remarkably perfect as an example of how a relatively simple weapon form is indeed quite beautiful aesthetically.
It is interesting that...
Forum: European Armoury 1st December 2025, 09:54 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,333
Posted By Jim McDougall
Hi Murph, Sorry nobody has answered, this is...

Hi Murph,
Sorry nobody has answered, this is pretty much as you already figured a cuttoe of 18th century, pretty hard to define more specifically but probably mid to later. The blade is most...
Forum: European Armoury 1st December 2025, 09:01 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,365
Posted By Jim McDougall
Thank you for that correction Robert! I did...

Thank you for that correction Robert! I did indeed get it backwards :) not unusual more often these days I fear.
Forum: European Armoury 1st December 2025, 04:42 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,365
Posted By Jim McDougall
Excellent and well informed input Peter, as would...

Excellent and well informed input Peter, as would be expected with your remarkable field experience in Oman, and I can see why this amazing sword piqued your interest. This is a fascinating example,...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 30th November 2025, 05:20 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,005
Posted By Jim McDougall
Really unusual question. With bronze weapons, it...

Really unusual question. With bronze weapons, it was usual as I understand that these blades would bend, and had to be returned to shape. In much later years where blade flexibility was of course...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 29th November 2025, 09:23 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 2,466
Posted By Jim McDougall
Victorian sword sticks and canes

Not too long ago I posted on the well known sword canes, sticks of Victorian England which became popular as weapons of self defense for gentlemen. However these met with a great deal of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 25th November 2025, 06:01 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 86,585
Posted By Jim McDougall
Thats true, and flexibility is a desired aspect...

Thats true, and flexibility is a desired aspect of blades, with testing , one of the aspects is that and durability to return to shape. But I have difficulty imagining this flexing and moving enough...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 24th November 2025, 05:13 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 8,953
Posted By Jim McDougall
Well noted Ian, these 'finger ring' types of...

Well noted Ian, these 'finger ring' types of edged weapon are (according to Levine '85) dirks from Central America. Not sure of the scope of examples with this distinctive feature, but the scope of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 24th November 2025, 04:58 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,270
Posted By Jim McDougall
Top one is Afghan paluoar , the tulwar variant...

Top one is Afghan paluoar , the tulwar variant from those regions of what was then (19th c) known as North India frontiers (now Pakistan and Afghanistan).
Average example, not uncommon, but nice...
Forum: European Armoury 23rd November 2025, 03:49 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 9,584
Posted By Jim McDougall
Interesting discussion of course, and most...

Interesting discussion of course, and most familiar, all views quite valid.

While I prefer to be optimistic, obviously there is more likelihood of weapons being presented as of this kind of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 23rd November 2025, 02:38 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 86,585
Posted By Jim McDougall
This is intriguing to see this topic, though...

This is intriguing to see this topic, though typically contentious over some time in threads years ago and in debates, with such salient note.
These references noted (thank you Orang Lama) is most...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th November 2025, 11:00 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 70,503
Posted By Jim McDougall
Once again, to clarify, my efforts here in...

Once again, to clarify, my efforts here in posting this intriguing leather armor have been to either support the suggested Spanish/Pueblo origin of this most unusual cuirass , or to acknowledge the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th November 2025, 07:57 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 70,503
Posted By Jim McDougall
Once again, to clarify, my efforts here in...

Once again, to clarify, my efforts here in posting this intriguing leather armor have been to either support the suggested Spanish/Pueblo origin of this most unusual cuirass , or to acknowledge the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th November 2025, 05:32 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 8,953
Posted By Jim McDougall
European influence in East Indies

I wanted to add an example of European influences, likely via forms of small sword which appear to have entered Indonesian spheres in the colonial period end of 18th c. into early 19th. with the...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 15th November 2025, 04:40 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 8,953
Posted By Jim McDougall
Thanks Ian, and well noted on the political...

Thanks Ian, and well noted on the political context. The Philippines were the far reaches of the 'Spanish Main' which did not simply vanish after the so called 'golden age of piracy' in the early...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 14th November 2025, 06:27 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 8,953
Posted By Jim McDougall
Oriental influences in New Spain

I think one of the more overlooked elements of influence in Spanish America is the profound trade networks that operated via the Philippines, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and Acapulco, San Blas and...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 13th November 2025, 05:50 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 8,953
Posted By Jim McDougall
As always repurposed and ersatz alterations are...

As always repurposed and ersatz alterations are hard to peg, and often reliable provenance are the best ways to try to estimate. The hilt, and guard seem like earlier hunting hangers around mid 18th...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 13th November 2025, 05:45 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 8,953
Posted By Jim McDougall
As always repurposed and ersatz alterations are...

As always repurposed and ersatz alterations are hard to peg, and often reliable provenance are the best ways to try to estimate. The hilt, and guard seem like earlier hunting hangers around mid 18th...
Forum: European Armoury 11th November 2025, 03:52 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 11,537
Posted By Jim McDougall
Thank you for keeping this post current each year...

Thank you for keeping this post current each year on this day!
It is a day of remembrance, and honoring all that have served in service of their countries,
Some gave all, but all gave some.

We...
Forum: European Armoury 10th November 2025, 01:06 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 4,057
Posted By Jim McDougall
Now I recall those posts over the years, and that...

Now I recall those posts over the years, and that I looked everyplace for a Wyatt, I think it was Peterson in "The American Sword" that mentioned Wyatt (Joseph) was a silversmith in Philadelphia. As...
Forum: European Armoury 9th November 2025, 04:41 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 4,057
Posted By Jim McDougall
Will, great find!!! Wyatt was I think a New...

Will, great find!!!
Wyatt was I think a New York maker who like Potter produced swords for loyalist forces during the Revolution. As of course, America was a British colonial entity, these kinds of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd November 2025, 05:41 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 8,413
Posted By Jim McDougall
Thank you for your entry Ausjulius! You are an...

Thank you for your entry Ausjulius! You are an intrepid soul to venture into this complex and perplexing subject matter. For those of here in the west, these topics are daunting with the lack of...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 3rd November 2025, 04:47 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 16,671
Posted By Jim McDougall
QALATCHOORI

I wanted to bump this thread up as it seemed incredibly to have just ended without any real input. With renewed interest in Central Asian weapons here, this conundrum seemed worth looking into...
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