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Antique Swords and Daggers


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Antique Swords and Daggers by Mircea Veleanu
List Price: $79.95
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Customer Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
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Features
  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Schiffer Publishing October 30, 2006
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 076432506X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764325069
  • Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds

    This noteworthy and exceptionally comprehensive book features edged weapons dating from the Neolithic period to the early 20th century. These fascinating antiques come from all over the globe, including Europe, America, the Middle East, Asia, Japan, and Africa. Detailed descriptions and over 890 outstanding color photos help collectors identify and study the characteristics, historical uses, and current values of highly diverse swords and daggers. Among the items showcased are tribal, ceremonial, and presentation edged weapons, Indonesian krises, and Borneo "headhunter" swords. Valuable information is provided about rare artifacts, terminology, and evaluating age and authenticity of the weapons. Novice as well as advanced collectors will find this an indispensable reference.

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    Reader Reviews
    Being an avid collector and connoisseur of Islamic and Indonesian Arms and Armor, I picked this book, based off of the cover design. Although the book is fully illustrated and well layed out, I had no confidence in the information after the first couple of pages. The author often, and when I say often, I mean 80% of the time, claims swords and daggers to be at least 19th century. This is not the case. Many of the Daggers featured in this book are recently made for the tourist market in Indonesia and India. You can tell by the style of Koftgari technique fairly easy with just a little bit of knowledge on the subject. This also includes Victorian European swords. The prices are off the charts. I laughed when I saw fairly plain Keris daggers, plain dha swords and beat up talwars estimated at over $1500. Now, the author is not selling these pieces (yet), these are just estimated prices. Perhaps if a few zeros were taken off the prices, that would be more realistic. I would not recommend this book. In fact, for the first time using amazon, I am sending mine back for a refund. I would however recommend anything by Elgood, Figiel, Robinson etc for Islamic ...and Albert Zonneveld's recent book for Indonesian.


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    Antique Swords and Daggers
    by Mircea Veleanu
    List Price: $79.95
    Available from Amazon
    Price: $58.36
    on 11-14-2011
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