Forum: European Armoury
Yesterday, 08:18 AM
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blade markings
I'm a bit confused:
the similarity of the markings on some of the blades in the two plates means what?
Either they both come from Sheffield or they both come from Solingen?
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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
3rd May 2024, 11:37 AM
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reward
Hello Jim. It is such a reward when diligent research unearths the provenance of a latest acquisition. Well done You - as usual.
When I discovered the story behind those two identical SB caskets,...
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Forum: European Armoury
30th April 2024, 06:41 PM
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A bit fishy
Hey Jim, I have to tell you about the Marlin Spike:
first the fish was named after the tool and not vice-versa.
Second, Marlin is a contraction of Marling.
Marling is the term for rope work, as...
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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
29th April 2024, 04:37 PM
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class act
I don't know what I like best: the superb piercing on that very practical weapon or the magnificent table of 'Elm burr'?
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Notice the Feur de lys on the pommel cap Jim.
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Forum: European Armoury
28th April 2024, 07:13 PM
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photography
Hi Peter. Regarding the quality photography: I’ve spent this last few years photographing objects to produce projections for my girlfriend’s lectures: anything from a Russian gas-mask to a...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 07:20 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 07:13 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 07:04 PM
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Wowie Bowie
Peter mentioned such swords cut down to form 'Bowie' knives.
Here's my 10c worth.
As close as you can come to a cut down sword.
This Western/Coleman knife is the knife Harvey drew when about to...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 06:57 PM
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and this just in
Here's a Shotley Bridge made dirk from Brian Moffatt's Borderland Museum in Howick.
I have never seen anything so forbidding. The history attached to this dirk would probably fill volumes. ...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 06:53 PM
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Wonderful dirk
A wonderful piece, with a traditional Celtic style hilt of bog oak and brass cap; a real working weapon or tool... who could argue with that? I'm envious indeed.
As Jim explains, the spirit of the...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 11:10 AM
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Good work
Well done Sir. We travel on parallel paths. Keep up the good work.
I wonder if this curiosity of mine fits anywhere in your world; it is certainly an oddity with more relations in the naval world,...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 11:05 AM
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Views: 176,518
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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Views: 176,518
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 April 2024, 01:52 PM
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stamped or stumped
As Fernando remarked earlier in this thread, the image of what I thought was the typical Hernandes punzone was very poor (vendor) and I saw what I wanted to see.
I approached the ricasso inside the...
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Forum: European Armoury
9th April 2024, 10:36 AM
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Views: 5,134
ricasso punzone
Hi Guys. The ricasso within the dish is very heavily coated in an accumulation of years, and quite black. On one side, the fuller continues, but on the other, is it quite flat and unless my eyes...
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