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Forum: European Armoury Today, 02:07 AM
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Posted By Hotspur
The counterguard is exquisite work! I'm...

The counterguard is exquisite work!

I'm generally not allowed nice things but seeing them and learning is the next best thing.

Cheers
GC
Forum: European Armoury Today, 02:01 AM
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Posted By Hotspur
Great stuff guys. Is there a cut off date...

Great stuff guys.

Is there a cut off date for the use of the 1414 and 1515 stuff? Other cabalistic traits continue, without these numbers.

I have just one of the eastern European profile but...
Forum: European Armoury 10th July 2025, 06:37 AM
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Views: 2,488
Posted By Hotspur
Yes, London port records are rife with manifests...

Yes, London port records are rife with manifests containing barrels of blades. Later as well, as noted by Mowbray and British ships going to Philadelphia with trunks and barrels listed as containing...
Forum: European Armoury 7th July 2025, 02:49 PM
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Views: 2,488
Posted By Hotspur
I am forgetting where I was reading on Euro steel...

I am forgetting where I was reading on Euro steel and there is a bit about Swedish trade with England (14th century?) and that some of it was slag from Swedish smelting. Then de-carbing in making...
Forum: European Armoury 30th June 2025, 06:45 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 2,340
Posted By Hotspur
A friend had a similar gun in years gone by. ...

A friend had a similar gun in years gone by.


Pretty much anything you put in a modern load will go down the tube.

I've not researched the shotgun at OK but the 'Tombstone' film version shows...
Forum: European Armoury 30th June 2025, 02:55 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 2,340
Posted By Hotspur
That is a nice gun Jim. Do you recall where...

That is a nice gun Jim.

Do you recall where the 'dollar's worth of dimes' really came from? I recall that from a Billy the Kid story.


Even with shorter barrels, there is not much spread,...
Forum: European Armoury 30th June 2025, 02:34 AM
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Views: 1,900
Posted By Hotspur
Isn't the notch a nail lift?

Isn't the notch a nail lift?
Forum: European Armoury 10th June 2025, 02:03 AM
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Views: 8,837
Posted By Hotspur
The spiderweb is widespread, from the 18th to...

The spiderweb is widespread, from the 18th to 20th century.

Here is my French infantry stepping out sword, restoration period.
Forum: European Armoury 10th June 2025, 01:58 AM
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Posted By Hotspur
Hey, I resemble that remark. The blue...

Hey, I resemble that remark.

The blue background Shiloh sword is mine and it is 20th century :D
A fancy plastic grip on that one

Fittings got mixed and matched for more than a century
...
Forum: European Armoury 10th May 2025, 05:10 PM
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Views: 4,058
Posted By Hotspur
Are these blades then lumped into the term...

Are these blades then lumped into the term 'shearing' swords?
Forum: European Armoury 4th May 2025, 06:44 PM
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Views: 13,481
Posted By Hotspur
Very cool A great Sunday bonus I find a...

Very cool

A great Sunday bonus

I find a lot of stuff on archive and other bookshelves

Most countries have online libraries on history sites

One I used to use more 19 years ago
Forum: European Armoury 4th May 2025, 03:53 AM
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Views: 8,305
Posted By Hotspur
The grip core is likely original, with cord...

The grip core is likely original, with cord acting as groves for the wire. It reminds me of something lowlands channel or Danish. I'll poke around. Contemporary time wise to the British artillery...
Forum: European Armoury 3rd May 2025, 11:51 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 24,350
Posted By Hotspur
Thanks Bryce!

Thanks Bryce!
Forum: European Armoury 25th April 2025, 10:05 PM
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Views: 190,001
Posted By Hotspur
Great to see you made a quick migration and the...

Great to see you made a quick migration and the terrific detail on the sword's background.

The spine markings have long needed to be gathered in one place.

In another recent addition, we have a...
Forum: European Armoury 25th April 2025, 04:32 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 19,168
Posted By Hotspur
I was going back through some shared pictures...

I was going back through some shared pictures from 2004. The pages were written by a Philip Lankester, Weapons Department, Royal Armouries 2004

In those brief pages, he describes the...
Forum: European Armoury 25th April 2025, 04:04 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 19,168
Posted By Hotspur
I don't know who furbished that sabre. I can only...

I don't know who furbished that sabre. I can only place it in time by the style and Mowbray likes these backstrap examples as post 1818, but we have the 'absolute' of those wd&c marks as from...
Forum: European Armoury 23rd April 2025, 06:44 PM
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Views: 19,168
Posted By Hotspur
Then there are Wooley Deakin&Co. blades on non...

Then there are Wooley Deakin&Co. blades on non Wooley hilts.

I've book notes on dates but off the top of my head, the 1810 seems about right.

The &Co supposedly puts this blade below marked no...
Forum: European Armoury 11th April 2025, 09:26 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 10,657
Posted By Hotspur
Please do use the image. As posted, I don't have...

Please do use the image. As posted, I don't have the notes from another's observations. Even if just looking at the Freemason's symbology, one can't expect it to predate English publicly published...
Forum: European Armoury 10th April 2025, 08:51 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 10,657
Posted By Hotspur
This one from Sweden seems later than the start...

This one from Sweden seems later than the start of hollow trefoil blades

Notes are gone...but iirc, Napoleonic era. I'm thinking it was related to the union with Norway in 1818 and several given...
Forum: European Armoury 9th April 2025, 06:08 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 21,542
Posted By Hotspur
Neat :) Mine has that boat anchor feel but still...

Neat :) Mine has that boat anchor feel but still seems like a 'get out of the way' for getting as job done.

Sean Scott is the guru for all things US cavalry in the 20th century. Good threads...
Forum: European Armoury 9th April 2025, 01:05 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 21,542
Posted By Hotspur
Figure this one I adopted. A federal period...

Figure this one I adopted. A federal period blade in what looks like a Spanish briquet hilt.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
Forum: European Armoury 9th April 2025, 12:57 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 21,542
Posted By Hotspur
Here ;) Watching. I think there might...

Here ;)

Watching.

I think there might be a thread elsewhere on the 1905-06 experimental cavalry and small numbers in trials out that away.

Then the 1911, predating Patton's 1913.

The...
Forum: European Armoury 6th November 2024, 08:20 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 12,232
Posted By Hotspur
The Ames eagle pommel and probably grip were of...

The Ames eagle pommel and probably grip were of one, the blade another and the hilt a French Cutler, you can just make out the French cartouche. I see something new very time I revisit those files...
Forum: European Armoury 18th October 2024, 03:52 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 28,105
Posted By Hotspur
It does look like an Asian take on a German...

It does look like an Asian take on a German dress/parade Mauser bayonet The blade is even more repro looking than a German take on them, after all those using bayonet blades.

I would think not...
Forum: European Armoury 15th September 2024, 04:27 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 35,783
Posted By Hotspur
A beautiful sword! The reeded grip is something...

A beautiful sword! The reeded grip is something we start to see a bit later. A feature that carries on through the 19th century. The ivory looks like old Russian mammoth. Brown bark.

Cheers...
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