Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
31st March 2024, 03:25 PM
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Reference;
A. The Omani Khanjar.
B. Omani...
Reference;
A. The Omani Khanjar.
B. Omani Swords.
C. The Omani Terrs.
Yes this is a Sayyiidi Khanjar after the name of what is probably Omans greatest ruler Saiid The Great 1804 to 1856.
The...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2024, 09:08 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2024, 08:48 PM
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Yes I have to agree. The peculiar aspect in...
Yes I have to agree. The peculiar aspect in dealing with the Yemeni weaponry is that all the experts have left...in fact all the Jewish people have gone to Israel...None of the silver and gold...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2024, 05:58 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2024, 06:27 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
30th March 2024, 06:11 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2024, 03:20 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2024, 02:49 AM
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see...
see https://www.jbmilitaryantiques.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201013_120012-1320x969.jpg
for examples of 5 ball hilt with pillow pommel and reeded grip ...This grip was exceptional for...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 11:52 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 02:28 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 04:58 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 02:43 AM
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Thomas Gill .. Famous Birmingham Sword Maker.
Adding to my previous post ...
This type of weapon, which was preferred
by Naval Officers, is well documented in various sword collecting books such as Bill Glikerson’s, “Boarder’s
Away“ on page...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 02:31 AM
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Thomas Gill .. Famous Birmingham Sword Maker.
https://landandseacollection.com/id564.html Shows some excellent swords from this stable. The Sword shown (SOLD)is an excellent example of a Naval Officers Hanger..Gill marked his blades with a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd March 2024, 02:27 AM
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Replies: 6
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Hello Marc,
I agree it is very odd how they...
Hello Marc,
I agree it is very odd how they appear to have been made. I almost never encountered single piece blades. Joining the two plates of blade seems peculiar but that is how they were...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st March 2024, 07:55 PM
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Yemeni Daggers.
I refer readers to the excellent detail contained at https://www.orientations.com.hk/highlights/forging-a-legacy-the-jambiya-yemens-iconic-weapon
In addition Forum library has work on The Omani...
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Forum: European Armoury
12th March 2024, 12:10 AM
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Lead Cutter??
I was a bit baffled by this terminology but I get it now... Wikipedia states Quote.
"The lead cutter sword was a weapon modelled on the cutlass, designed for use in shows and demonstrations of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th February 2024, 10:22 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th February 2024, 11:08 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th February 2024, 10:01 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th February 2024, 11:34 PM
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Hello Triarii, Until Keith produced his book on...
Hello Triarii, Until Keith produced his book on the Shotley Bridge Swordmakers I didnt really know much about the English involvement in sword making either there or in Hounslow...That was rather a...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd February 2024, 11:02 PM
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In none of the blades ...Butin shows almost 50...
In none of the blades ...Butin shows almost 50 examples, the designs copied are not of blades but of Hilts... Especially in the case of big broad highly decorated European blades too heavy for the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 06:23 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 01:07 PM
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Replies: 104
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Just to end on a scenic note on The Indian Ocean
The Cultural aspect of the Lingua Franka was the vital ingredient on design flow of technology weapons building design clothing food jewelery music dance poetry religion in fact almost every aspect...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 12:59 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd February 2024, 12:09 PM
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Just adding a few words about the applied decoration and what I have identified as a sort of Royal Signature on Omani and Zanzibari weapons... and this work applied using quite...
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