Forum: European Armoury
5th January 2011, 12:42 AM
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Modern fencers and students of smallsword play...
Modern fencers and students of smallsword play have mentioned the small pas d'ane as perhaps vestigal but that the grip of a smallsword was meant to use pinching between thumb and forefinger for...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th January 2011, 05:09 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
4th January 2011, 01:34 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
1st January 2011, 04:47 AM
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Bingo ;) I mention Prahl making/casting gun...
Bingo ;) I mention Prahl making/casting gun fittings in an earlier post but at the same time and in the period being discussed, no mention there of the cast hilts. Still, leaving the door open for...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th December 2010, 11:39 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th December 2010, 05:35 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th December 2010, 01:20 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
28th December 2010, 04:57 AM
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Mark Cloke of www.oldswords.com/ is eager to...
Mark Cloke of www.oldswords.com/ is eager to share such articles for all and would gladly take submissions to add to an ever growing database of Man At Arms articles.
As mentioned before, I take...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th December 2010, 04:17 AM
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Hi Jeff
Indeed and even though I am a...
Hi Jeff
Indeed and even though I am a two finger typist as well, I often manage to transcribe quite a bit of text for others. Nor do I offer the Medicus book as a whole proof but it is...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th December 2010, 02:56 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
28th December 2010, 01:24 AM
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Lol Jeff,
Maybe you should read...
Lol Jeff,
Maybe you should read Peterson writing that it is German in his description of #18 and begins that dialog with the information.
Out of the original context you replied
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Forum: European Armoury
27th December 2010, 11:49 PM
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Hi Jeff
The information regarding foundries...
Hi Jeff
The information regarding foundries in Philadelphia was mentioned by me and drawn from other's of Bazelon's associates.
Mowbray specifically relates Rose as not a founder, so I have...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th December 2010, 09:50 PM
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Hi Jeff
Conjecture, as far as I can...
Hi Jeff
Conjecture, as far as I can see. There is no reason to assume that it is some unknown foundry in Philadelphia but a lot of evidence that Philly cutlers imported many of their parts....
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Forum: European Armoury
27th December 2010, 02:07 PM
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My position has been stated and information...
My position has been stated and information presented to support my thoughts. Further reviewing and re-stating my perspective has become a bit redundant.
If someone has the 1992 article and cares...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th December 2010, 09:19 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
26th December 2010, 03:05 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th December 2010, 01:54 PM
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Good morning,
What I am getting at in...
Good morning,
What I am getting at in conclusion is that Flayderman and the Mowbray archives waffle the Philly notes Bazelon based his 1992 article on. If I make it back to Hartfod in the fall,...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th December 2010, 01:43 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd December 2010, 10:40 AM
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Regarding Peterson, I have just opened it again...
Regarding Peterson, I have just opened it again and the blurb for sword 18 is easy to read much into without regarding the first line. Made in Germany. The similar swords regarded there are not all...
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd December 2010, 10:13 AM
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It is the somewhat contradictory premise...
It is the somewhat contradictory premise introduced in your first post that prompts more source and research work.
Part of the post I lost was in regarding the massive amount of data...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2010, 05:48 PM
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I had a long post building (then lost it) from...
I had a long post building (then lost it) from other sources regarding cast brass hilts but in going through Peterson, Neumann, Bazelon, both Mowbray's along with Flayderman's Medicus; There really...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2010, 04:34 AM
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Interesting slot
I was prompted by a recent...
Interesting slot
I was prompted by a recent addition of my own and some searching out color ensembles has led me to understand the U.S. cavalry a bit more organized than simple militia without...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th December 2010, 06:12 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
13th December 2010, 01:07 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
18th September 2010, 04:20 PM
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Iw as just a toddler back in 1956ish but I had...
Iw as just a toddler back in 1956ish but I had acquired a plastic dagger with a claw and ball pommel that I was quite enamored of. By 1960, I was reading well and brwsing comic books when I spied the...
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