Forum: European Armoury
1st May 2015, 01:20 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th April 2015, 03:34 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
21st April 2015, 03:39 PM
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I remembered another example of those German...
I remembered another example of those German baskets with a non-conical pommel.
For a discussion of this sword, and related German baskets (which the owner of the site wants to call Schiavona!),...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st April 2015, 03:26 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
19th April 2015, 02:52 PM
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Wait a minute! That cast brass thing is a wall...
Wait a minute! That cast brass thing is a wall mount for suspending a sword. No wonder I couldn't figure out how it attached to the hilt!! The white background threw me - I didn't realize that it was...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th April 2015, 02:49 PM
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Hello Fernando,
Regarding the brass basket...
Hello Fernando,
Regarding the brass basket posted above, I think that it's OK. Somewhere I've seen something similar (but I can't remember where!), but I don't think that it's a product of the...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th April 2015, 04:05 AM
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This is a follow up post to the German basket...
This is a follow up post to the German basket from the last half of the 1500s that I submitted earlier. Most of these basket types that I've seen have a conical pommel, but here's one with a round...
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Forum: European Armoury
10th April 2015, 01:28 PM
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Hi Jim,
If Darling said that, then I'd have to...
Hi Jim,
If Darling said that, then I'd have to disagree with someone considered an authority. Take a look at most of the swords produced by Walter Allan: backswords are in the majority. And how...
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Forum: European Armoury
9th April 2015, 03:50 PM
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Hi Cathey,
That is an odd one. If it weren't...
Hi Cathey,
That is an odd one. If it weren't for the etching one would just ID it as an English cav/dragoon sword. What I really find unusual is the reference to Wallace.
Haydn Vesty's hypothesis...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th April 2015, 01:18 PM
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Hello Ulfberth,
I'll do some speculating about...
Hello Ulfberth,
I'll do some speculating about that sword that you posted with the French blade: the hilt is a Scottish "Glasgow" type hilt, and I would bet that the sword was brought over to France...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th April 2015, 07:09 AM
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Hi Cathey,
Unfortunately, the other French...
Hi Cathey,
Unfortunately, the other French basket was traded long before I began taking photographs of my swords.
However, it was literally a twin to this one, so just imagine a large etched panel...
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Forum: European Armoury
5th April 2015, 05:02 AM
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OK, here's my last basket for awhile. I do have...
OK, here's my last basket for awhile. I do have other basket and half baskets to post, but they haven't been photographed yet. I will hopefully have time in July to take pictures of them, and will...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd April 2015, 04:16 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd April 2015, 01:05 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
31st March 2015, 03:20 PM
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German. I've seen these hilts dated from the...
German. I've seen these hilts dated from the 1550s up to about 1600.
41" straight de blade with a short central fuller in which is engraved IOHANNES.
Interesting hilt form that may have inspired...
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Forum: European Armoury
31st March 2015, 03:01 PM
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German, also ca.1600
37" straight se blade with...
German, also ca.1600
37" straight se blade with a single moderately wide fuller, stamped with a heart and cross on the left side. The heart/cross stamp has been tentatively identified as an Italian...
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Forum: European Armoury
31st March 2015, 02:53 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th March 2015, 02:12 PM
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English/Scottish composed of rounded bars,...
English/Scottish composed of rounded bars, arranged to form a basket of trellis form.
32" se blade, narrow and wide fullers, spuriously etched in the wide fullers during the 1700s with ANDRIA FERARA...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th March 2015, 02:06 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th March 2015, 02:00 PM
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More baskets of an English origin.
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More baskets of an English origin.
Grenadiers (?) half basket, 1750 (?)
30" curved se blade with single narrow back fuller.
This sword, although fairly pitted, is all original and does not...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th March 2015, 01:50 PM
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Regarding the African blade connection, I too...
Regarding the African blade connection, I too have always assumed that these were later blades mounted in old hilts. However, last week Czerny's had an auction, which I viewed last night, and so I...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th March 2015, 10:59 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
28th March 2015, 01:37 PM
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Hello Will,
By "shagreen" I mean rayskin. I...
Hello Will,
By "shagreen" I mean rayskin. I just purchased a rayskin and used the section with the smallest denticles so it would approximate sharkskin.
I don't have a permanent source for...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2015, 12:38 PM
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Scottish "Turcael", probably first half of the...
Scottish "Turcael", probably first half of the 1700s.
33" curved se blade with triple fullers, stamped "ANDRIA FERARA".
Shagreen grip covering and binding is one of my restorations that is done...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2015, 12:32 PM
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English, last half of the 1700s.
36" se blade...
English, last half of the 1700s.
36" se blade with wide and narrow fullers, stamped "GILL".
Oval paneled hilt with oval rein opening on the left.
Shagreen covered grip bound with copper wire.
The...
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