Forum: European Armoury
Yesterday, 10:54 PM
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royal gift
Thank-you Fernando: a magnificent piece of work and a fascinating story.
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Forum: European Armoury
7th May 2024, 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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Replies: 344
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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'?
ps
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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Replies: 18
Views: 5,863
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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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Replies: 344
Views: 177,277
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 April 2024, 01:52 PM
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Replies: 8
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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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