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Iron Spear Head ID Help 57.3 g, 18.5 cm long
« on: June 25, 2020, 02:32:06 pm »
Iron spear head ID help please. 57.3 g, 18.5 cm long. Thanks.
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Re: Iron Spear Head ID Help 57.3 g, 18.5 cm long
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2020, 09:01:27 am »
Looks to be very well formed, almost industrial in quality.

Do you know where it is from?

My first thoughts are late-Medieval or post-medieval such a Janissary but just a guess.

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Re: Iron Spear Head ID Help 57.3 g, 18.5 cm long
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2020, 08:52:43 am »
I looked through Stone's Glossary of arms and armor and there was nothing identical but it does look similar to a lot of the 16th to early 18th century European pieces.

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Re: Iron Spear Head ID Help 57.3 g, 18.5 cm long
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2020, 01:26:45 pm »
Thanks.  I will try to find a reference.  I just noticed that the sender wrote that it came in a group of Western Asiatic weapons. He collects Western Asiatic weapons but was unable to identify it, perhaps supporting the possibility that it is European.
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Re: Iron Spear Head ID Help 57.3 g, 18.5 cm long
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2020, 11:02:18 am »
West Asiatic takes me back to my original suggestion - Ottoman lance head, likely 16th to 18th century.  Possibly Persian too.

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Re: Iron Spear Head ID Help 57.3 g, 18.5 cm long
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2020, 01:59:06 pm »
Darn things are not easy.
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