Forum: European Armoury
3rd May 2024, 06:46 PM
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errors and answers
We went down the wrong road:
the portrait is of 1st Earl of Strafford (a supporter of Charles 1st) who was executed at Tower Hill in 1641.
His son, the 2nd Earl (died 1695) was a good friend of...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd May 2024, 11:49 AM
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ps
Here is the portrait in question, save anyone chasing the link (thank-you by the way Peter).
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd May 2024, 11:47 AM
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artistic license
Thank-you Radboud. Makes perfect sense.
I do, however, see hilts on aristocracy portraits here in England that are totally unknown to me, although I am new to this game.
Referring back to that...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th April 2024, 06:23 PM
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Sword in the picture
Hi Peter. Thank-you, a good shot; I will send it to Paul.
Curious sword he is wearing.
I often wonder just how accurate artists were; artistic license prevailing always.
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Forum: European Armoury
29th April 2024, 04:45 PM
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error
My apologies for my carelessness; it was the Earl of Strafford not Stafford. Ooops!
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 11:05 AM
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Response
Thank-you Jim... but you failed to mention that without you and Peter mentoring me throughout I may well have fallen at the first hurdle. As it was, I had put the entire project on the back burner,...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th April 2024, 11:07 PM
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coincidence
My collaborator Paul bought his sword and casket from the son of a man called Stafford.
Reference my short history above... that is quite some coincidence!
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Forum: European Armoury
26th April 2024, 06:48 PM
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Sword casket
It was battering my brain working out why, and who, and where, so I want to present some facts regarding the provenance of these two identical caskets.
Obviously made some considerable time after...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th April 2024, 04:12 PM
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Mortuary hilts
I have no idea when the Mortuary style hilt fell out of fashion.
I have been informed, and I raised this issue on the forum but no-one responded, that Mortuary hilts were made on the Hebridean...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th April 2024, 11:06 AM
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Additional data
Those blades (and there were not a lot of them) were brought by Harmon Mohll at the time of the arrival of the Solingen diaspora in 1687.
They were destined for Jacobite upper classes around...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th April 2024, 10:50 AM
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Images
Here are additional images from the Royal Armouries in Leeds showing a Mortuary hilt on one of those first batch of Solingen made blades with a Shotley Bridge script.
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Forum: European Armoury
24th April 2024, 10:39 AM
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miss-match
Hello. Yes, it is indeed an old hilt on a new blade, a common occurrence and very confusing at times.
This group of swords were collected by Lord Gort - younger brother of Viscount Gort of famous...
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Forum: European Armoury
9th November 2023, 02:58 PM
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Bertram
Hi Brian. Hope you haven't dropped any glass on your foot/feet.
I know you are too busy to start reading my book but I will send you a copy anyway as amongst other questions you have asked there...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th November 2023, 11:46 PM
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Glass
Just for reference purposes: the glass was enamelled by Mary Beilby.
The inscription reads:
SUCCESS TO THE SWORDMAKERS on one side, and:
O
W A
1767
on the other side, which stands for OLEY...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th November 2023, 11:36 PM
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Bushy Tailed Fox
As attractive as it is to associate Thomas Bewick with Oley's Bushy Tailed Fox, I'm afraid the first known incarnation (see lower pic) dates to the end of the 1600s; and the ubiquitous stylised...
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Forum: European Armoury
7th November 2023, 08:50 PM
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Bewick
[QUOTE=Peter Hudson;285862]
My favourite is Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick's Works: A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself. Chapter iv
states that he etched sword blades for W and N...
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Forum: European Armoury
6th November 2023, 09:55 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
6th November 2023, 09:33 PM
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Holles et al.
The above sword was forged in Shotley Bridge by Adam Oligh for John Holles.
Although a staunch royalist, Holles was a devoted Protestant and supported Danby when he held York for Prince William...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th November 2023, 01:51 PM
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pictures
That is a very welcome issue.
I look forward to seeing those fotos.
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Forum: European Armoury
4th November 2023, 01:47 PM
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Lintel date
Hi Peter. The only foto we have of the lintel is very poor and the 6 looks like a 5.
It was 1691 when the building was dedicated.
There was another lintel recorded prior to it being lost and that...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th June 2020, 08:29 PM
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response
Hi. Lauren I sent you a private message with my email address so I could help you with your Oley search but you did not respond or did not receive.
Let me know if you wish to commune.
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Forum: European Armoury
15th February 2019, 10:41 PM
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return of the prodigal
As may easily be discerned, I have been away a long time, but my research into The Shotley Bridge Swordmakers has continued apace, albeit with a three month hiatus beginning last November.
I have...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th December 2017, 09:19 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
5th December 2017, 08:57 PM
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Ah So!
So, we have an image of a genuine SB small-sword then: surely a rarity.
Has anyone else ever seen such a thing?
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Forum: European Armoury
4th December 2017, 05:05 PM
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hollow promises
Do we think this may be a re-hilting of a cut-down broadsword blade?
Can you tell by observation of the blade?
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