Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st October 2025, 04:53 PM
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I cannot thank you enough for such kind words...
I cannot thank you enough for such kind words reviewing my interview with Sergey, which was incredibly enlightening on this very esoteric subject .
While I have done some collecting and study in...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st October 2025, 04:19 PM
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Replies: 10
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Mysteries of Shotley Bridge
Hi Keith!
Im glad to see you come in on this, as nobody knows these northern blades as you do. The mysterious Mr. Oley of Shotley Bridge was indeed the silent player of English sword blade...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th October 2025, 05:29 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
19th October 2025, 01:22 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th October 2025, 05:43 AM
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Replies: 12
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Good note Rob, and that has been the case with...
Good note Rob, and that has been the case with numbers of swords we have seen through the years. It seems a travesty, but years ago many old weapons were seen simply as displays rather than valuable...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th October 2025, 11:58 PM
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Replies: 10
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th October 2025, 08:10 PM
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Replies: 12
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Agreed, the Rajputs moved eastward as far as...
Agreed, the Rajputs moved eastward as far as Orissa regions, and as far north as Nepal of course over centuries. It would be hard to imagine the diffusion of the transverse grip punch dagger did not...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th October 2025, 07:28 PM
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Replies: 12
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Thank you Turkoman! especially for providing...
Thank you Turkoman! especially for providing these links to these examples.
It is extremely hard to date examples of Indian arms as the elemental conventions remained essentially the same overall...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th October 2025, 05:58 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 20,103
Thank you so much Mercenary, it is very...
Thank you so much Mercenary, it is very gratifying to see one of my weapons acquired many years ago when my knowledge of Indian arms was so elementary noted with such recognition. It is a most...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th October 2025, 05:17 AM
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Replies: 10
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
18th October 2025, 04:58 AM
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Replies: 12
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Hi Ian,
I recall the discussions of 10 years...
Hi Ian,
I recall the discussions of 10 years ago, and Jens was indeed trying to establish the origins of the katar, or the transverse grip weapon form dagger. I think the presumption that the use by...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th October 2025, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 20,103
Thanks Ian! I was surprised at the similarity,...
Thanks Ian! I was surprised at the similarity, and have always thought of this as optimistically 18th c. Rajput, as it seems to correspond with other such examples.
I think it was indeed a full...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th October 2025, 02:27 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
17th October 2025, 02:18 PM
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Replies: 17
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Thank you Dirk! Then perhaps even tenuous...
Thank you Dirk! Then perhaps even tenuous possibility of Culloden (1746) association in degree (by type) as there were some French contingents there as Jacobites. Were turks heads used on grips that...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th October 2025, 01:25 PM
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Replies: 12
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Katar dagger, Rajput (?) late 18th c (?)
This 'katar' seems to correspond to an example shown in an interesting article in OBJET.art (linked) and I would appreciate comments.
The article example shown as of this 'punch' type is compared to...
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Forum: European Armoury
17th October 2025, 01:02 PM
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Replies: 17
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English? walloon?
Thank you guys for this valuable discussion.
I have this example which has been neglected in research for decades, and have always simply presumed it was English, and probably of c. 1690s.
In...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
15th October 2025, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 7
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Ian and Will, thank you guys for detailing...
Ian and Will, thank you guys for detailing criteria on your observations!
This thoughtful effort is how we learn about the weapons we discuss and the character of the elements, decoration and...
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Forum: European Armoury
12th October 2025, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 18
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th October 2025, 07:26 PM
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German blade in Punjabi tulwar
As noted in earlier posts, there was a propensity with the use of British M1796 blades in Indian tulwars, most noted during the Anglo-Sikh wars, when British cavalry found that the deadly tulwars...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th October 2025, 06:08 PM
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This is remarkable Chris!!! and the markings 4...
This is remarkable Chris!!! and the markings 4 P.I. are most telling, as you have noted for the unit 4th Punjab Infantry. Those singular markings unleash the 'story' of this tulwar, and its part in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th October 2025, 07:09 AM
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Replies: 11
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I think the references to brittle blades from...
I think the references to brittle blades from India likely referred to wootz, which if improperly forged was indeed brittle. While many of the wootz blades were of course beautifully finished and...
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Forum: European Armoury
11th October 2025, 03:49 AM
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Replies: 27
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If you mean the ANDREA FERARA, as far as I know...
If you mean the ANDREA FERARA, as far as I know there are few examples of his blades genuinely marked with his name, but clearly there were some, and those by his brother Donato are even more rare. ...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
10th October 2025, 09:48 PM
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Replies: 45
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Forum: European Armoury
9th October 2025, 09:07 PM
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Replies: 10
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Forum: European Armoury
4th October 2025, 01:44 AM
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Replies: 3
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Historical context
Thank you Udo for identifying this. We dont see Italian swords come up to much. Going by that detail, it seems the carabinieri were royal cavalry which had originated with King Emanuel I of Savoy to...
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