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Forum: European Armoury 20th April 2012, 02:57 PM
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Posted By Dmitry
My $.02. This is a compounded issue. One one...

My $.02.
This is a compounded issue. One one side, there's the "old boys club" relic mentality. After all, these people created the whole museum wings by donating significant numbers of weapons and...
Forum: European Armoury 20th April 2012, 02:28 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 108,622
Posted By Dmitry
Well said. Not only the museums, but fellow...

Well said.
Not only the museums, but fellow enthusiasts. Case in point, on another well-known bulletin board/forum centered around early and medieval weapons, someone had started a thread about...
Forum: European Armoury 19th April 2012, 09:47 PM
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Posted By Dmitry
What Michael calls Victorian or 20th c. pieces,...

What Michael calls Victorian or 20th c. pieces, are attributed to the 16th c.
Again, the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Forum: European Armoury 19th April 2012, 06:24 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 34,825
Posted By Dmitry
Excellent. So was wrong to attribute the...

Excellent. So was wrong to attribute the Philadelphia dagger to the late 1400s-early 1500s?
Forum: European Armoury 19th April 2012, 06:21 PM
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Posted By Dmitry
I'll take 4 then. :D

I'll take 4 then. :D
Forum: European Armoury 19th April 2012, 02:41 PM
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Posted By Dmitry
These swords are very expressive, in my opinion....

These swords are very expressive, in my opinion. Very large, wavy blades, huge hilts add to the mythology of the knights (even though they had nothing to do with the knights]. That's the main reason...
Forum: European Armoury 18th April 2012, 06:48 PM
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Views: 108,622
Posted By Dmitry
Hmm. That's odd, because every museum with a...

Hmm. That's odd, because every museum with a large arms and armor collection has them on display.
Forum: European Armoury 16th April 2012, 09:48 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 34,825
Posted By Dmitry
Michael, I didn't want to bring this up, since...

Michael, I didn't want to bring this up, since the topic is not focused on it, but now that you said it, it confirms what I thought the moment I saw the piece - the Philly Museum tag for this dagger...
Forum: European Armoury 16th April 2012, 08:03 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 34,825
Posted By Dmitry
Here's a photo I took of another one. It's in the...

Here's a photo I took of another one. It's in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Much simpler than the ones above, but in similar fashion, with a cut-back inner part of the guard.
Forum: European Armoury 14th April 2012, 02:23 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 19,829
Posted By Dmitry
I've got a book titled Artillery of Peter the...

I've got a book titled Artillery of Peter the Great, will check it after I get back home.
Off the cuff - Russian artillery was quite renown in Europe in the 18th-19th c. for its efficiency and...
Forum: European Armoury 13th April 2012, 01:58 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 19,829
Posted By Dmitry
I'm no artillery buff, but I think that the...

I'm no artillery buff, but I think that the projectiles it fired were not rectangular, but round, arranged in a horizontal row, perhaps in a rectangular sabbot.
Forum: European Armoury 12th April 2012, 06:34 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,529
Posted By Dmitry
I have just started the process of...

I have just started the process of "olivification" with some store-bought olive oil on the hilt of this French non-comissioned officer's sword ca.1750. It was originally blackened [fer noirci], with...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th April 2012, 04:15 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 6,837
Posted By Dmitry
Dom, thank you, as always, for your expertise and...

Dom, thank you, as always, for your expertise and free will!!!
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th April 2012, 03:50 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 20,789
Posted By Dmitry
I've been mailing and receiving swords for years,...

I've been mailing and receiving swords for years, not a single one went missing or was damaged by the USPS. Last year I had a sword go missing for 3 months, en route from the US to Australia. One...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 10th April 2012, 12:10 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 6,837
Posted By Dmitry
It's wootz, no doubt. I have hi-rez photos. ...

It's wootz, no doubt. I have hi-rez photos.
Here's the whole thing. Sorry for the photo. The sword isn't mine.
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 9th April 2012, 07:55 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 6,837
Posted By Dmitry
Yatagan inscription help. Thanks!

Hello, friends. Someone asked me to ID a yatagan. The only thing I can make out is a date which looks like 1121, which translates to approx.1709 AD.
I really don't think the blade is that old. By...
Forum: European Armoury 6th April 2012, 05:40 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,529
Posted By Dmitry
Again, our posts have crossed, Michael. I once...

Again, our posts have crossed, Michael.
I once tried to remove the Ren.Wax from a blade. And I couldn't do it. I tried Acetone, a couple of commercial solvents, and still the white patches of wax...
Forum: European Armoury 6th April 2012, 05:26 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,529
Posted By Dmitry
I was somewhat partial to the wax, until I found...

I was somewhat partial to the wax, until I found out that it can be damaging to the object it's on. The moisture-repelling properties of a microcristalline wax, i.e. the Renaissance Wax have been...
Forum: European Armoury 6th April 2012, 02:13 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,529
Posted By Dmitry
I am a strong opponent of applying wax. Somehow...

I am a strong opponent of applying wax.
Somehow these swords and guns made it to the 21st century after hundreds of years of not being waxed.
Forum: European Armoury 5th April 2012, 09:04 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,529
Posted By Dmitry
Hi, Michael. Yes, I just read your post. ...

Hi, Michael.
Yes, I just read your post.
Trouble is that I could only find refined extra virgin olive oil here. It's lighter in color than the unrefined one. I'll have to go into a different...
Forum: European Armoury 5th April 2012, 08:46 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,529
Posted By Dmitry
Salaams, Ibrahiim. I have been using BreakFree...

Salaams, Ibrahiim.
I have been using BreakFree CLP for years, and am very happy with its preservative and penetrating powers.
I've read that olive oil, when it dries, forms a very nice patina. I...
Forum: European Armoury 5th April 2012, 06:08 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 25,529
Posted By Dmitry
Olive oil as a conservant.

Does anyone have photos before and after applications of olive oil? I'm interested in seeing the results after the said oil dries up and cakes up on the steel or iron.
Forum: European Armoury 2nd April 2012, 07:07 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 11,166
Posted By Dmitry
I don't remember seeing it in the Visser...

I don't remember seeing it in the Visser Collection books. I must have overlooked it.
Here's a link to a discussion of a somewhat similar style of hilt on a Dutch hunting hanger....
Forum: European Armoury 1st April 2012, 01:09 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 11,166
Posted By Dmitry
What an excellent attribution! A small...

What an excellent attribution!
A small brass-mounted two-barrel pistol by Claude Niquet, with a similar bag-shaped Rococo-scrolled grip and butt was in the Visser collection.
So you think 1740? I...
Forum: Ethnographic Weapons 28th March 2012, 12:01 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 20,789
Posted By Dmitry
What are the details? How did it go missing? Was...

What are the details? How did it go missing? Was it going overseas? Do you have the tracking info?
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