There was a smuge on my camera lens...

not2sharp

not2sharp

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So lets see if we can spot it:;)

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So who wants to be the first one to correctly identify all of these oriental arms? :)

n2s
 
Can't speak for the rest, but I see what I think is a kaiken (#3) and a katar (#4)...

Very nice!!
 
Well I see 4 Khukuris, a Tarwar, Katar, Kora, and a Ram Dao. A couple look like ordinary knives but I don't know what they would be called and number 8 isn't all that unusual a piece but if I ever knew what it was called I have forgotten.:o
I assume these are all yours N2S?:foot: ;) Damned nice collection anyway!!!!:thumbup: :cool: :D
 
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Closeup on the very unusual No. 2 (it also wears 3-4 arsenal stamps and inlays)

n2s
 
So who wants to be the first one to correctly identify all of these oriental arms?
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I'd rather be the first one to talk you out of any of them:thumbup: , but being unable to resist making a fool of myself in public, here's my best shot:foot: :
1. kukri with sossun pattah blade and talwar grip
2. kukri with kora grip (and a real beauty:D )
3. Bhutanese or Tibetan dagger
4. katar
5. khanjar
6. kukri with kora grip
7. kukri with kora grip
8. jambiya
9. ram dao
10. ram dao
11. kora
12. Mughal sossun pattah
13. kard

Did I get any right?:o
 
Berkley said:
I'd rather be the first one to talk you out of any of them:thumbup: , but being unable to resist making a fool of myself in public, here's my best shot:foot: :
1. kukri with sossun pattah blade and talwar grip
2. kukri with kora grip (and a real beauty:D )
3. Bhutanese or Tibetan dagger
4. katar
5. khanjar
6. kukri with kora grip
7. kukri with kora grip
8. jambiya
9. ram dao
10. ram dao
11. kora
12. Mughal sossun pattah
13. kard

Did I get any right?:o
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Well done! I though 12 and 13 would be a bit tricky; 12 because it has a very subtle recurve, and 13 because it is not a classic Kard. Although, handled as a kard, it has a spear point and wide shallow fuller on either side.
More like a crossbred between the Kard and a Bowie. There is a signature on the blade; and although I have yet to translate it, I am sure that it reads Jim Bowie...:D

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n2s
 
N2S, I love them all but really like that khanjar. I had a chance to buy a modern Persian fighter in D2 by Peter Bauchop when I bought my custom Alley Cat a few years ago, but did not have the $600 needed at the time. This one looks very similar, but even cooler if anything as the blade is wider.

I could really see HI doing a version of this knife. :thumbup: Anyone else?

BTW, what are you still doing with my Katar? I thought you were going to be sending that back to me quite some time ago! :D

Great pics, thanks for the treat.

Norm
 
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Just another camera test. This one a very nice Ceylon Kastane built on a Dutch East India Company sword blade dated 1773.

n2s
 
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Here is an interesting old timer, from back when souvenirs were worth having. It is based on the pattern for the once popular 570mm yataghan bladed bayonet; but, has been made with a handle casting designed to commemorate a world fair.

This one was sold at the World Columbian Exposition of 1893. That was a major world fair held in Chicago to showcase US industrial might. Among many other interesting developments a young carpenter named Disney worked there and his yet to be born son Walt would later adopt many of the fair's themes. This is also where an engineer named Ferris came up with a crackpot idea to upstage the Eiffle tower - something of a massive rotating wheel....Even the young Frank Loyd Wright was fired for goofing around with designing private residences instead of focusing on the industrial business at hand. The fair was a huge success, and a masterpiece in crowd management, design, the arts, and entertainment.

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Its a shame that we can no longer have one of these. With our current industrial laggardness we would be lucky to fill a local flea market. But, back in 1893, the US was approaching its most potent period, and that abundance was on display all over a fairgrounds that would make Disney World look like a 2nd rate traveling carnival. This sword is an interesting piece of Americana; a reminder of what once was, and may perhaps yet be again.

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It is hard to appreciate the scale of this thing today; or the tremendous intensity with which it was pursued.

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At an age when we find ourselves unable to even rebuild the World Trade Center. the idea of building 200 fair buildings within 2 years - including a few of monumental scale - is mind boggling.

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n2s
 
Absolutely Amazing N2S!!!!:thumbup: :cool: :D May I ask where you found the pix of the buildings?
I'd like to read more about them.:)
 
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