Hello,
I recently obtained a set of 11 arrows. I have not been able to identify where they might be from or when they might have been made. I will do my best to describe them, but I will email photos if requested.
They are very long (81 cm base of point-bottom of nock). They are all split hardwood or conifer wood, maybe POC, darkish-red colored, very straight despite age; I guess they might be dowels. There doesn't appear to be any finish on them. There is no cresting. They are uniform diameter (parallel), about 0.8 cm. The points are all cow horn (I think), about 4.25 cm long. All have 3 radial fletchings about 9 cm long. They look like typical commercial fletchings, but they are so old I can't tell how they're cut. The self-nocks are simply cut into the wood.
I would have guessed they're commercially made target arrows, but at 32" I'd say they're a bit to long for that! With the horn points Turkish flight arrows would be an alternative theory, but they're still too long and too crudely made. The person I bought them from thought they were originally obtained in the 1950s from a secondhand shop, but she wasn't sure of their origin.
My current hypothesis is that they were made in someone's woodshop, maybe for a beginning archer. The horn points are still a mystery, though!
Thank you for your help,
Nathan
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