Forum: European Armoury
9th August 2025, 04:40 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
9th August 2025, 04:35 PM
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Baskets
It is hard to tell for sure if this is a curved blade but it is certainly a basket hilt.
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Forum: European Armoury
8th August 2025, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 17
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Cross to bear
Hi Jim. When it comes to un-resolved markings on blades you are my first port of call and I bow to your encyclopedic knowledge on the subject.
However, I am often bewildered by your detailed...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th August 2025, 09:37 AM
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request for information
I asked this question as a ps on another thread but felt it deserved a thread of its own.
After the Viking influence waned in Britain and the Normans dominated, it seems that the billet forging...
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Forum: European Armoury
7th August 2025, 11:57 PM
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Replies: 17
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The Hidden One
Celts around the North Sea claimed they learned the science of 'Billet Forging' from "The Hidden One": an underworld god.
Noted linguist Kim McCone, who has specialised in Celtic language, notes...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th August 2025, 12:52 PM
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Replies: 9
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alternatives
What was the alternative?
Multiple rounds versus size obviously made them attractive.
Was anyone making a good, reliable version?
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 2
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Reivers
Border Reivers' swords???
Peter and I have been positing this explanation for a long time now:
One of the solutions to Border Reiving was to encourage the leaders to remove the problem.
In 1603...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th August 2025, 08:14 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 23,200
numbers
Hey Jim. Mole and Co. Birmingham worked alongside WS supplying the British government and governing entities in all manifestations, (East India Co. for example).
They were the only manufacturers...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd August 2025, 11:09 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 23,200
hammer time
Regarding the time it took to make a sword:
there were many stages in the production of a finished sword.
The first stage is obviously the forging of the blade.
Oley was getting his steel from...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th July 2025, 08:19 PM
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Replies: 29
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extra thoughts
Stuart wonders why there are so few "Made In Hounslow" blades on Hounslow hangars... Solingen blades seeming to predominate.
One of his examples is lavishly scripted "IN SOLINGEN ANNO 1644". ...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th July 2025, 07:52 PM
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Replies: 29
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Detail
I always suspected - given the lack of a button - that the grip has a rebind; probably a working-life job and very well done.
Stuart Mowbray, Brit. Mil. Swords page 165 shows an identical hilt in...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th July 2025, 07:07 PM
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Replies: 29
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Hilt
It's Keith - by all means.
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it is still a very sharp blade.
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 03:57 PM
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Replies: 29
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dates and talismans
My Hounslow Hangar has - along with a Passau Wolf latten - a date which actually corresponds to a local event in history:
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This was the date of the crowning of the sixteen year old...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 11:59 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 11:48 AM
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Wolves and cutlers
Here's something I picked up on Jim, outside of the Hunting Hangar thread's purpose:
"In Hounslow Johann Kindt 1630-40 used the running wolf...."
Much debate has attended the issue of the Wolf...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th July 2025, 10:10 PM
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Replies: 29
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numbers
This is a very important thread re. talismanic numbers. It appears no-one has fully plumbed these depths. Jim, you were the first person I encountered who suggested talismanic sigils and numerology...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th July 2025, 07:28 PM
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Replies: 27
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No memory
Well, I got to thinking about what a hell of a good move Josie Wales is and well worth a quiet Saturday afternoon's viewing, seeing it has been some time.
Mostly he was using what looked like big...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th July 2025, 02:44 PM
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Other worldly
This is a handsome sword Jim and obviously ripe with provenance.
We are in a new world for me but it is very interesting.
Let me ask a question that falls marginally into my ball-court: where was...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th July 2025, 09:37 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 23,200
Fox
Hey Jim, are you watching? There's that fox again.
With reference to the history of this sword, I suspect this is a second generation grip. The cap and the peen are indicative of a previous antler...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th July 2025, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 10
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Elementary my Dear McDougal
Do you know that those words were never actually spoken in any of the novels!
Elementary... yes. My Dear Watson... yes. But never together.
Anyway, with the absolutely utmost modesty I must...
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd July 2025, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 21,606
cap it all
Thank-you CC. I was not aware of the percussion ignition spreading, but now I look at my Colt (made for export to London) pocket pistol I see just how much damage was done to the surrounding...
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd July 2025, 11:03 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd July 2025, 10:58 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd July 2025, 10:50 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 21,606
no make mentioned
"I am certain the final showdown in the movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales" features a replaceable cylinder winning the day... yes?"
Yes, and it was a Remington; I didn't mention a manufacturer, only...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th July 2025, 08:21 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 21,606
Our Man Clint
I am certain the final showdown in the movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales" features a replaceable cylinder winning the day... yes?
It was a definite boon with percussion arms and it would have been...
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