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| {{:mary_s_will.jpg?300|}} Mary M-P's original will with its beautiful, laborious handwriting. | {{:mary_s_will.jpg?300|}} Mary M-P's original will with its beautiful, laborious handwriting. |
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| **Whose?** {{:mp28.jpg?500|}} These are Indian tabar axes.((Provenance:T.A. & M.T. M-P and thanks for identification by a generous stranger, Damien Fegan, via Facebook.)) Damien Fegan has identified them (from a photo) as more likely to be used as dervish axes than as combat weapons and thinks they probably date from no earlier than the mid-19th century. The dating suggests they were bought by Thomas de M. M-P when he travelled to India. The handle of the 'weapon' doubles as a sword. One of the axes has an elephant on it; the blades originally had engraving on them, which also appears to suggest they were ceremonial arms rather than weapons designed for use in war.((T.A. & M.T. M-P, pers. comm., 2017.)) | **Whose?** {{:mp28.jpg?500|}} These are Indian tabar axes.((Provenance:T.A. & M.T. M-P and thanks for identification by a generous stranger, Damien Fegan, via Facebook.)) Damien Fegan has identified them (from a photo) as more likely to be used as dervish axes than as combat weapons and thinks they probably date from no earlier than the mid-19th century. The dating suggests they were bought by Thomas de M. M-P when he travelled to India. The handle of the 'weapon' doubles as a sword. One of the axes has an elephant on it; the blades originally had engraving on them, which also appears to suggest they were ceremonial arms rather than weapons designed for use in war.((T.A. & M.T. M-P, pers. comm., 2017.)) |
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