For Sale poste militaire 70mm kd1

[Mazayas]

poste militaire 70mm kd1
15 euros + shipping
spain
thanks

 

[custer760]

Sorry mate,but this must be a recast!!The Poste Militaire Viking had an axe in his right hand.The right hand shown is from the Prince of Kiev kit.
No offence meant.
Regards
Pete

 

[Mazayas]

I buy it, second-hand and I do not like it,thks

 

[arj]

Sorry mate,but this must be a recast!!The Poste Militaire Viking had an axe in his right hand.The right hand shown is from the Prince of Kiev kit.
No offence meant.
Regards
Pete

I've just had a look at "Mirofsoft's" catalogue archive and found this in the PM catalogue:-

I'm not jumping either one way or the other. Just playing Devil's Advocate.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[Nap]

From what I remember of PM stuff the foam looks right and old with age .

Can't comment on figure it's got legs ..lol !

Nap

 

[Blind Pew]

Looks kosher to me.

 

[akaryu]

Looks like genuine Poste Militaire, first seller may have mixed up with the right hand of the Kiev kit.

 

[Sergei]

The Sviatoslav of Kiev kit seems to be irrelevant here. The figure is the Viking holding a spear that appears in the middle picture in the PM catalogue reproduced above. But that figure had a base with steps without a cross, whereas the kit on sale contains the cross and a base with no steps, i.e. the base from the Viking with an axe kit. As far as I can read, the base also has an inscription –aire, which is consistent with the name of the manufacture, Poste Militaire. So, what we have here is the Viking with a spear and the base from the Viking with an axe. It is hard to say who mixed these two kits, either the previous seller or may be even the manufacturer. Both PM Viking kits are in fact the same figure, but with different weapon and bases. I should say I have never seen the Viking with a spear before, so this may be in fact a rare PM kit.

 

[jai]

I have never seen the Viking with a spear before.

The spear was the most common weapon among the Viking warriors. The spears had metal tips that could measure between twenty and sixty centimeters, with the tendency to make the longest ones towards the end of the Viking era. These tips were mounted on two or three meter long wooden rods. The wings were called krókspjót , Le lance a punta larga erano definite höggspjót. The spear was used both in distance and in body

The term Spjót is generally glossed ‘spear, lance’. It would seem to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *sper meaning pole or spar. I thus take it to denote only a pole-arm type spear. Spjót forms many compound words, notably;

• Spjótsfalr, meaning spear socket.
• Spjótshali, meaning the end of the spear-shaft.
• Spjótsleggr, meaning the actual spear-shaft
• Spjótskapt / Spjótskepti with the same meaning.
• Spjótsprika meant the spear-head (and may have been of Swedish origin).
• Krókaspjót meant a barbed spear and krók-fjöðr a barbed spear-head.
• Höggspjót means ‘hewing spear’ and must relate to the type of spear with a broad blade meant to be used two-handed rather than for thrusting in the usual way. It is often glossed as ‘halberd’ in dictionaries for no good reason that I can think of.
• Fjöðr (feather) is the term used for the spear blade.

https://viking-metal-artifacts.mysh...ars/products/hoggspjot-spear-with-bronze-wrap

https://viking-metal-artifacts.myshopify.com/collections/hoggspjot-slashing-spears/spear

 

[Sergei]

Thanks for that. I meant the PM kit, not Vikings with spears in general.

 

[jai]

ok sorry, I do not speak English so sometimes not everything is straightforward