A Foreign Sword???

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:45 am

I fellow I met recently on ebay sent me pics of a couple swords someone brought him to sell on ebay. The seller has been to AAPK before and has said some nice things about AAPK.

I am posting the pics for him, in hopes that someone may have an idea as to the origins of these two swords. There are several pics so I will put them in two posts.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what these are & where they are from?

Dale

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:50 am

Here is the other item, sword or knife that he was wanting some info on.

Thanks for your input,
Dale

Forensic Jim · Post by **Forensic Jim** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:04 am

Orvet, Those are just incredible. Knife7Knut probably knows something about them. There are some good books available on swords, but I don't have any. Look really old to me.

goodspotty · Post by **goodspotty** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:35 am

Dale,

Thanks for posting those.

Hi everybody. I joined here a while ago to research some Schrade items. A GREAT informative site.

Actually it is my mom I am going to list these for. She has an antique store and bought these as part of an estate.

I am hoping to find enough info on them to at least get then in the right eBay category.

Thanks,
Russell

knife7knut · Post by **knife7knut** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:39 am

Not sure about the first one;it looks European and old.The second appears to be of African origin but I don't know the proper name.There is a site called,"Ethnographic Arms and Armor"
http://www.vikingsword.com.

They should be able to identify both of them.Very knowledgeable people from all over the world.

goodspotty · Post by **goodspotty** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:49 am

knife7knut,

Thank you. I have joined over there.

I will post here any interesting results.

Russell

goodspotty · Post by **goodspotty** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:36 am

One down - one to go.

African Kaskara Sword Islamic

http://cgi.ebay.com/African-Kaskara-swo ... dZViewItem

stancaiman · Post by **stancaiman** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:42 pm

for the first sword, it can be a tuareg sword (africa) : i'm not sure but it's look like

hoops, i'have not see the response above

goodspotty · Post by **goodspotty** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:55 pm

The one in the wood sheath is made by the Ovambo people from Namibia. It is simply referred to as an "Ovambo Knife".

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