Saturday, May 4, 2013
Another in the catalog
An interesting sword with a bit of rough character to it.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Number 70 in the catalog
Another milestone of sorts - a rather nice brass hilt sword from my own collection joins the catalog. Making a total of 70 swords for now - there are a few more still to add as well.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Many additions to the catalog
There has been a flurry of additions to the new catalog system recently.
Old blade, likely European and interesting hilt with well aged leather:
Takouba 60
Interesting half brass hilt with native blade:
Takouba 62
Likely an old trade blade in Tuareg mounts with interesting blade engravings:
Takouba 64
Mossi takouba:
Takouba 65
Mandara region short takouba:
Takouba 66
Ancient takouba with relic condition blade:
Takouba 67
Nice Tuareg example:
Takouba 68
Brass hilt with odd, possibly native blade:
Takouba 69
Saturday, March 2, 2013
New catalog system replaces collections page
The new catalog system for the Takouba Research Society is now live. Almost all content has been shifted to this system. It allows for sorting and classification of all the swords in the collections by a variety of parameters based around the main categories of People Group, Blade Type, Hilt Type and Blade Markings.
I hope you enjoy this - it was a large amount of work but the collections are now truly useful for research and not just a chronological record of the swords added to the site.
You can visit it from the top menu link - or directly here: http://takouba.org/catalog
Friday, January 25, 2013
Two new swords on the collections page
Thanks to two new contributors there are two more swords on the collections page.
A very nice brass hilted sword with a locally made blade:
Takouba 53
And a 20th century Tuareg sword:
Takouba 52
