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Making the Chinese rattan shield logo

Making a Chinese rattan shield

Ever since I acquired an antique Chinese tengpai (籐牌) or "rattan shield" I had been wanting to figure out how to make these. I ordered rattan of appropriate type and dimensions at a local rattan supplier and got working…

Treating a broken wrist on a gun logo

Treating a broken wrist

(This is a very old article so the image resolution is somewhat low.)

Major surgery on an old Teutonic war-horse logo

Major surgery on an old Teutonic war-horse

(This is an old article so the images are fairly low resolution) Over the past few years, local collectors and antiques dealers have brought in a number of different variations of the Prussian Dreyse needle-fire rifle…

Military sabers of the Qing dynasty logo

Military sabers of the Qing dynasty

According to Chinese symbolism, the strength and martial spirit of a soldier is embodied in the single-edged blade (dāo, literally meaning “knife”) whereas the double-edged sword (jiàn) represents the noble character of…

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