Forum: European Armoury
5th August 2025, 05:39 PM
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Wild west and suicide special revolvers
In the 'wild west' as heralded by dime novels of the late 19th c. the legendary lore of the gunfighters gave us the larger than life figures that became immortalized in countless films and novels. ...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 11:50 PM
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Had you guys EXACTLY in mind in posting this! ...
Had you guys EXACTLY in mind in posting this!
These rugged clans were formidable warriors who lived independent of national loyalties, and would often align with certain powers much in the manner of...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 27
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 10:25 PM
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Excavated dusagge from near Culloden site
This article from Man at Arms Feb.2024 shows an excavated dusagge said to have been dug up from an area near the Culloden battlefield site. It was suggested that as these swords were from the 16th...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
4th August 2025, 09:02 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 11
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Actual 'sandbar Bowie'
The actual title here concerns the 'actual' type knife used at the legendary 'Sandbar' fight, which took place on a sandbar in the Mississippi river between Vidalia and Natchez Mississippi on...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 07:10 PM
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Replies: 27
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 27
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Thanks very much Stu, and I very much agree....
Thanks very much Stu, and I very much agree. Actually when I first got this rifle, I felt it was of course a hunting rifle, however I felt that given the 'climate of war' circumstances of its period,...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 02:41 PM
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Replies: 29
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Keith this is outstanding perspective into the...
Keith this is outstanding perspective into the dynamics of sword production numbers in a given period and region. It is actually almost hard to fathom the relatively staggering numbers of swords that...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd August 2025, 06:08 PM
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Replies: 29
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There seem to be a number of swords with this...
There seem to be a number of swords with this inscription, but only about 4 or 5 recorded, the Fitzwilliam one is listed in Mann, 1962.
The idea of marking ones own name on blades produced was...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd August 2025, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 27
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That makes sense Stu, and good tip on the...
That makes sense Stu, and good tip on the Flayderman book!
So then I could see why these might be used for competition.
Were sights used for competition different than those used in military or for...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd August 2025, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 27,953
Commemoratives
It seems there was a confluence of actual Solingen blades which came into the shops in the Hounslow enterprise, and while certainly some of the German makers there do appear to have made blades,...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd August 2025, 04:17 AM
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Replies: 27
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Hi Stu,
Im glad you did come in! Im certainly...
Hi Stu,
Im glad you did come in! Im certainly no expert on guns, but I have gotten a few over the years just out of historic interest.
That is surely a good possibility, as these rifles were...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd August 2025, 03:18 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 9,381
Reading through "The Wallace Collection" (Sir...
Reading through "The Wallace Collection" (Sir James Mann, 1962): The plate referencing the 'wolf' marks on many of the swords in the catalog.
Item A475: a bastard sword c.1620 with German blade...
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Forum: European Armoury
31st July 2025, 07:22 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th July 2025, 03:17 AM
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Replies: 27
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Thats a good question Lee, I have trouble with...
Thats a good question Lee, I have trouble with all these fancy terms. I would think writhen is a tighter 'weave', kinda like my shoelaces :( but its hard to say. This looks more like some sort of...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 07:09 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 9,381
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 06:11 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 27,953
It truly is fascinating to look into these...
It truly is fascinating to look into these conundrums! and I recall us discussing this amazing Hounslow example. The entire Hounslow enterprise, much like the later Shotley Bridge venture, was...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 05:46 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 27,953
It truly is fascinating to look into these...
It truly is fascinating to look into these conundrums! and I recall us discussing this amazing Hounslow example. The entire Hounslow enterprise, much like the later Shotley Bridge venture, was...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 10
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Swords during the American Revolution
"...the sword remained as the symbol of manly honor through the eighteenth century and was especially favored among British military officers, often to the annoyance of the provincial Americans".
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 27,953
Thank you Keith! Indeed, I have ventured into...
Thank you Keith! Indeed, I have ventured into this rabbit hole countless times over decades, and there are few who have queried these matters soundly. Many cursory entries in various works simply...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 05:32 AM
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Swords DO get around!
Eljay was right, this hilt is of a design which was popular for British cavalry officers, the brass, curled bars in guard, lionhead, gadrooned bone grip.
As he noted, he had owned the example here...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 04:57 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 15,612
Finally got it!
Today I received the book I've been waiting for:
"With Drawn Sword: Austro-Hungarian Edged Weapons from 1848-1918", M.Christian Ortner; Erich Artlieb, 2006, p.523,
This exact sword form is shown...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th July 2025, 04:40 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 14,334
This is an absolutely wonderful entry!!! Thank...
This is an absolutely wonderful entry!!! Thank you so much! The subject of Tipu is fascinating, and my friend Nidhi Olikara has studied this topic for many years and is well published on the subject....
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Forum: European Armoury
28th July 2025, 05:40 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 27,953
Good question. I think it went through the 18th...
Good question. I think it went through the 18th pretty well, as these magical conventions kept being applied on blades quite late. Batches of blades with cabalistic numbers, sigils etc. were known as...
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