new club, any ideas?

[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

Looks chaps I have issues about this sailor/pub landlord origin.

This is why, okay there are metal parts on the club. The metal bits look like innocent pieces of scrap and by themselves they are. Then one looks at the hole for the lanyard. Would a pub landlord or a sailor sit and pick a hole through the club? Most people of European cultural origin would use a drill or at least a hot metal rod as often seen in Africa. Also the pub landlord must of had a fetish for pretty industrial stampings, especially as they are an everyday occurrence in their society which also seems decidedly unmacho for a European inspired weapon.
I might suggest that the hole has been picked out or roughly drilled with a piece of flint or shell because any metal that could be construed as a weapon was made unavailable. This might help to explain the value of the innocent bits that are on it.

Indeed Tim,

A sailor in particular would take the time to pick a hole for a wrist lanyard, wouldn't want to see it fall overboard. Like the art of Scrimshaw, they had the time at sea to do these things A publican would surely do the same in days of old, something for a suspension loop to hang on a wall or behind a beam so it is in easy reach without having to bend down or take his eye of the target
Speculation is just that though

Gav

Gav