Here is my other hunting sword

urbanspaceman · 30th July 2025, 06:52 PM

I always suspected - given the lack of a button - that the grip has a rebind; probably a working-life job and very well done.
Stuart Mowbray, Brit. Mil. Swords page 165 shows an identical hilt in the London Museum signed FECIT HOUNSLOE on one side and RECARDUS HOPKINS on the other. The blade differs however as does the grip which is spiral bound fish-skin. He does not identify Hopkins.
Another, page 164, with a "silver dot and trellis" hilt but otherwise identical is signed ANDRIA FERARA and has a stag grip.

urbanspaceman · 30th July 2025, 07:19 PM

Stuart wonders why there are so few "Made In Hounslow" blades on Hounslow hangars... Solingen blades seeming to predominate.
One of his examples is lavishly scripted "IN SOLINGEN ANNO 1644". Another with a 'cross and orb' features the palindrome 1551 and TOMIS AIALA. Yet another has ANNO 1414. Go figure!
Many of these swords are in York Castle Museum.

30th July 2025, 06:52 PM	#1
urbanspaceman Member Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Tyneside. North-East England Posts: 715	Detail I always suspected - given the lack of a button - that the grip has a rebind; probably a working-life job and very well done. Stuart Mowbray, Brit. Mil. Swords page 165 shows an identical hilt in the London Museum signed FECIT HOUNSLOE on one side and RECARDUS HOPKINS on the other. The blade differs however as does the grip which is spiral bound fish-skin. He does not identify Hopkins. Another, page 164, with a "silver dot and trellis" hilt but otherwise identical is signed ANDRIA FERARA and has a stag grip.

30th July 2025, 07:19 PM	#2
urbanspaceman Member Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: Tyneside. North-East England Posts: 715	extra thoughts Stuart wonders why there are so few "Made In Hounslow" blades on Hounslow hangars... Solingen blades seeming to predominate. One of his examples is lavishly scripted "IN SOLINGEN ANNO 1644". Another with a 'cross and orb' features the palindrome 1551 and TOMIS AIALA. Yet another has ANNO 1414. Go figure! Many of these swords are in York Castle Museum.