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Nicola Tal
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 Posted: Sun 19 Mar, 2006 7:55 am Post subject: The beautiful snake (palash) |
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The beautiful snake (palash)
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Hisham Gaballa
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| Posted: Sun 19 Mar, 2006 9:22 am Post subject: |
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Interesting, I'm guessing that that is a very early sabre? Where's it from and how did it end up in that state?
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Steve Maly
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It looks like the ritual destruction of swords found in Viking burials or bog deposits...
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." ~A. Maslow
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Addison C. de Lisle
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Looks like someone didn't have an appreciation for Turkish (?) sabers 
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Allan Senefelder
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Addison, from what I gathered talking with Lee Jones back at our October round atble this practice of bending or deforming swords which goes back to the iron age at least is a ritualized "killing" of the decased owners sword so that it can "Cross over" with him to the next life. Dr. Jones has a 1st century celtic long sword that had been bent twice (inot an S) and at some point in atiquity straightened and a collector friend of mine has an early celtic sword that was broekn into 4 pieces. Nichola's sword is the most extreme bending deformation i've seen.
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Addison C. de Lisle
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That's really interesting, thank you for telling me.
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Nicola Tal
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| Posted: Sun 19 Mar, 2006 10:33 am Post subject: Beauty |
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Beauty
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Hisham Gaballa
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| Posted: Sun 19 Mar, 2006 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| Addison C. de Lisle wrote: | | Looks like someone didn't have an appreciation for Turkish (?) sabers |
At a guess I would say that is not Turkish (well at least not Seljuq or Ottoman anyway), possibly it is Magyar or Avar.
Nicola, aren't you going to tell us what they are? 
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Nicola Tal
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| Posted: Sun 19 Mar, 2006 1:22 pm Post subject: I with you agree, I think it Hungarians!!! |
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I with you agree, I think it Hungarians!!!
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