Timonium 2007 Roll-Call

[Mark]

Me!

Incidentally, I did not mention it in my announcement because it was a call for presentations and not the formal announcement of the seminar, but the Timonium Seminar is sponsored, as every year, by Oriental-Arms (Artzi and Avner Yarom). The support of Oriental-Arms has allowed us to really raise the level of the seminar experience.

Also, WHERE ARE YOUR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS?!!!!

l know lots of you are lurking out there - I see your footprints in the snow around the announcement. Take the plunge. Or for that matter, tell me its a horrible idea so we can revise the plans to include more than the two featured speakers.

[CharlesS]

I hope to be there, else there be a shortage or waxed domes(bald heads)!!

[RhysMichael]

I plan on being there and highly recommend it to any who can make it. Every year I have been has been very educational, alot of fun and a good meal. Not to mention you get to spend the day at the largest antique arms show on the east coast.

[RSWORD]

Count me in!

[Jim McDougall]

I'm going to be there this year and really look forward to seeing everybody!!!
Rsword....bring a huge sword of some kind for swinging in the parking lot shadows!! ala' the Highlander!!
This event just keeps getting better and better, and I'll never forget the great times we've always had in years past.

All the best,
Jim

[dennee]

Me too.

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by dennee

Me too.

lol. Are you sure you want to make the trip?

[RSWORD]

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

I'm going to be there this year and really look forward to seeing everybody!!!
Rsword....bring a huge sword of some kind for swinging in the parking lot shadows!! ala' the Highlander!!
This event just keeps getting better and better, and I'll never forget the great times we've always had in years past.

All the best,
Jim

Jim,

I think we burnt the midnight oil that evening but it was lots of fun! Looking forward to seeing you again along with everyone else. I believe this is year 5 or 6 and I have enjoyed each and every one of them.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by RSWORD

Jim,

I think we burnt the midnight oil that evening but it was lots of fun! Looking forward to seeing you again along with everyone else. I believe this is year 5 or 6 and I have enjoyed each and every one of them.

This will be year 6. I went back and put together a list of all of the speakers of years past, except the first year (I remember Lee, Erik and Philip spoke, but I forget who else, and exactly on what). It is quite an impressive roster:

2006 Seminar Speakers
Ann Feuerbach, "Research Into the History of Wootz Steel"
Ric Furrer, "Metallurgical Aspects and Modern Wootz Making"
Rick Stroud, "Common Patterns On Wootz Blades"
Wolf-Dieter Miersch, "African Shields"
Lee Jones, "Weapons of the Tuareg"

2005 Seminar Speakers
Kate Raphael (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), "The Archeology of Battlefields in the Holy Land, 12th &13th Centuries"
Charley Hodges, "An Excavated Medieval Sword Find from Czechoslovakia"
Lee Jones, "Medieval European Swords with Alexandria Arsenal Inscriptions"
Jonathan Barret, "Indian Swords and the Empirical Tradition"
Charles Saunders & Rick Stroud, "The Piso Podang and Its Relation to the Indian Tulwar"
Richard Wagner, "Coral Decorated Weapons"
Robert Hales, "Notes on Interesting Piah Kaetta Knives"
John Powell, "Styles of Nepali & Indian Koras"
Weapons of Vietnam:
Nick Wardigo, "The Double-edged Sword (Kiem): Its Design, Construction and Decoration."
Scott Rodell, "Functional Characteristics of the Kiem, as Compared with the Chinese Jian (demonstration)"
Philip Tom, "Single-edged Weapons (Dao and Guom)"
Ian Greaves, "Edged Weapons of the Highland"

2004 Seminar Speakers
Robert Elgood, "New Ideas on South Indian Weapons"
Jeffrey Forgeng (Curator, Higgins Armory Museum), "Ethnographic Weapons at the Higgins Armory Museum"
Andrew Winston, "Unusual Dah"
Anthony Tirri, "Sword Breaker from India"
Artzi Yarom, "19th Century Moghul Shield"
Robert Hales, "The Keris Dagger of Captain Swan"
Lee Jones, "Find or Fake: An Excavated European Medieval Sword"

2003 Seminar Speakers
Philip Tom, "The Influences of the Islamic world on the Decorative Affectations on Chinese sabers of the 16th-18th Century"
Jim McDougall, "On the Evolution of Several Swords in the Maghreb"
Charles Saunders, "Typology and Terminology of Indonesian (non-Keris) Blades"
Oliver Pinchot, "Observations on the Assad Allah Signature"
Dan Margni, "Development of Blade Patterns from Laminated and Twisted Structures"
Anthony Tirri, "Black Sea Yatagans, Are They Really Turkish?"
Mark Bowditch, "Common Fabrication Techniques Seen in Dahs"
Jim Manteris, "Swords of the King of Kings - Ethiopia"
Barry Parks, "Old Jade Maori Mere Club"
Ian Greaves, "New purchases from Manila"
John Powell, "The Khukuri of the Maharajah of Sirmoor"
Artzi Yarom, "Blade manufacturing in Pakistan in the 21st Century (video presentation)"

2002 Seminar Speakers (the inaugural year)
Erik Farrow
Lee Jones
Philip Tom
Others (but who, anyone remember?)