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Antique Chinese bronze.

You're right, it's a mace.

One quite similar example:
Excellent find!

Here's some links for the OP for Luristan bronze objects and their location. I've seen a ton of Luristan bronze objects pop up for sale in European auctions, the swords are very common.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luristan_bronze

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorestan_province

Reverse image tells me it is Egyptian from 2500 to 3200 years old. Thanks guys!!!!!
It appears to be a Luristan bronze mace, very similar (maybe even an exact match) to the one that @Redmanss linked to in his post above. That puts it in the Lorestan province of Iran around 1200 BC to 800 BC.

I wish that more stuff like this was posted on this forum. I really enjoy seeing ancient weapons, and I've posted some of my archaic handgonnes here before. This is quite a bit older than firearms from the 1300's, though.
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Sorry for the delay. The best way to run the unit is to input the environmentals to the unit from your phone on ABI mode or your Kestrl on ABI mode. Then disconnect the phone or the kestrel as they are no longer needed for employment. As to the temp tables they are stored in your ballistic profile and will be factored in base on the environmentals dictated.

Is this a typo? could u go into more detail on connecting a Kestrel to push environment iN ABI mode?

Antique Chinese bronze.

I found this rummaging through my mom's stuff. Does anyone have an idea about what it is? Or where to start looking. Thanks!View attachment 8657961View attachment 8657961
If anyone here has any antique weapons like this one, I highly suggest becoming a member of the Viking Sword forum and cross posting your stuff over there. That forum is literally the epicenter for any weapons that are vintage to archaic, handgonnes to blades, Europe to Micronesia, etc. Those guys really know their stuff, and that's where I cut my teeth learning about firearms from the 1300's and 1400's. Those guys should be able to tell you anything you want to know about anything old that you guys have in your collections.

I wish that Matchlock was still around posting on that forum. Michael personally took the time to help me out with multiple items. He was a great guy and an amazing source of information on early European firearms.