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Visit our Shopping Site pages and buy from us direct or visit our Books for Sale pages and buy research materials from one of our affiliates. Proceeds and commissions from these sales - in part - go towards the purchase of additional reference materials and acquisition expenses. You can also order this service online from our Identification Request Page or send a check or money order with your identification request or as a token of gratitude if this site has proven to be helpful to you. If you send a check or money order, please note on the document that it is intended for the "Research Fund".
Additionally, if there is anything that you would like to see on the following pages - in a weaponry identification sense - please feel free to request such and I will try to add additional information as soon as possible.
Please note - buying an item or sending funds does not guarantee a response. Due to overwhelming response to this website, I may not answer directly; I may simply post new material on the website in hope that a published response will answer your question(s).

• If you E-mail or snail-mail any images to me for use in identification of an item, I reserve the right to use - without further contact - those images on my website, without compensation to you (other than my efforts to assist you, however minimal the result may actually be).
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Research materials I have available are quite substantial; however, on some items, information within those materials might be quite sparse. If you choose to snail-mail images, please make sure you have copies or your originals retained for yourself. We do not return images in any format and they become the property of Arms to Armor - The History Store without compensation to you for any use - past, present, or future.

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If you have a specific identification question, please see our Identification Request Page.

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Below are the images of some ethnic swords and related commonly found on the African continent and surrounding areas. I hope this page is of service to you.
I offer advice on request; however, initially, the best advice I can offer to the novice collector is, "READ BOOKS."
There are a number of wonderful books available and below I have listed some of my holdings; I also occasionally have some of these titles for sale."
This is a very interesting region and the edged-weapons are mostly unique in nature. Africa was influenced by many countries and cultures; those influences are apparent in the lands bordered by seas. Edged-weapons of the land-bound countries approach the bizarre, and are very alien in appearance to the novice. To fully appreciate African swords one must understand the cultural diversity and the hunter-gatherer social structure of early African man.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! READ BOOKS!

If you need further information, please request such on the Weapons Identification Service page.

Weapons Identification Service
Can I help identify a Sword or Knife for you?

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