Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
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23rd March 2024, 08:38 AM
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12th December 2023, 07:40 PM
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27th August 2023, 10:33 AM
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23rd August 2023, 06:35 PM
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What you are saying only validates my point.
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What you are saying only validates my point.
You call this an ALGERIAN NIMCHA precisely because it has some very distinctive features of an Algerian nimcha... while it might have been assembled in...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd August 2023, 10:09 AM
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Yet, you are generally referring again to the...
Yet, you are generally referring again to the period POST the ottoman occupation of the Balkans!
"There was extensive arms and armor production in the Balkans during these times, documented by the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd August 2023, 10:25 PM
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22nd August 2023, 09:52 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd August 2023, 07:49 PM
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Why not BARONG?!
I am not very knowledgeable...
Why not BARONG?!
I am not very knowledgeable about this but to my eyes this is a barong, albeit the widening of the blade is slightly more pronounced towards the tip than in the classic barongs....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd August 2023, 07:43 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd August 2023, 07:25 PM
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TUMBUK LADA
What is a tumbuk lada?!
To me, these are tumbuk lada. These and some similar knives with a chubby hilt and with some other distinguishable features one can notice in the photos.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd August 2023, 06:44 PM
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22nd August 2023, 05:58 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd August 2023, 05:53 PM
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KILIJ
What is a KILIJ?! :confused:
For most of us, a KILIJ is this...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
22nd August 2023, 10:43 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st August 2023, 11:22 AM
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Decorations on arms of Central Asia
This is what I find to be a brilliant article on the decorative features on arms of Central Asia. I like very much the no-nonsense, pragmatic and scientific approach based on features, not on...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st August 2023, 09:31 AM
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Of course there are similarities between your...
Of course there are similarities between your Kurdish dagger and the one above!
But even more similarities are between your Kurdish dagger and a classic Persian khanjar. Yet your dagger is...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
21st August 2023, 09:14 AM
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Very nice piece!
It appears to be genuine...
Very nice piece!
It appears to be genuine albeit in rather poor condition.
However, with some minimally invasive cleaning it can be brought back to its former glory.
Thank you for sharing!...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th August 2023, 08:43 PM
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I have two, similar with yours.
They both...
I have two, similar with yours.
They both have wootz blades. This is enough to completely invalidate its "Albanian" attribution as wootz was not produced in Europe at that time (with the...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th August 2023, 07:03 PM
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20th August 2023, 01:08 PM
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20th August 2023, 09:58 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
20th August 2023, 08:37 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
19th August 2023, 08:47 PM
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I believe the designation of these daggers as...
I believe the designation of these daggers as Albanian or Balkan is completely wrong!
The turgha stamp on this one points towards a TURKISH origin, and not Albanian.
Moreover the style of these...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
17th August 2023, 02:47 PM
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