Forum: European Armoury
1st January 2010, 11:36 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
1st January 2010, 10:09 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
28th December 2009, 11:50 PM
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I wanted to add that in contemporary use of...
I wanted to add that in contemporary use of cutting with swords in my own hands shows some blades much better cutters than others. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'm afraid I can't put any of the French mle...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th December 2009, 10:30 PM
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Certainly, a great many more were lost to...
Certainly, a great many more were lost to artillery (from all fired arms) and sickness than any of the other possibilities. I mention lost because most lists touted as pertinent to weapon use simply...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th December 2009, 11:34 PM
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Hi Jeff,
I'll have to look at my folder...
Hi Jeff,
I'll have to look at my folder again and it may have been another artillery sword from the same source. One is showing the scabbard with the throat removed. Otoh, it may be a picture with...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th December 2009, 10:48 PM
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I am not familiar with (don't own) Albaugh's...
I am not familiar with (don't own) Albaugh's work, aside from brief passages posted by others. Is this a quote from the 1960s? I do consider a lot of the old work of others (such as Peterson) as...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th December 2009, 03:46 AM
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Umm, no Jim. Grant included/added a sentence to...
Umm, no Jim. Grant included/added a sentence to the paperwork regarding the allowance to let officers retain their sidearms. The sword was never ceremoniously offered by Lee and then refused by Grant...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th December 2009, 07:22 PM
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Good find,
Something else to consider is...
Good find,
Something else to consider is that the William mentioned, may well be the John W. Wallace of the blade. I have not spent more than superficial time with this but this William Wallace...
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Forum: European Armoury
15th December 2009, 06:02 AM
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A start here. He was too young to have had an...
A start here. He was too young to have had an early S&K in the Mexican war but look to this as his war sword and what the first issue of it was. Likely prewar militia arsenal stores. His entire bio...
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Forum: European Armoury
15th December 2009, 05:46 AM
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Thanks for more background on the sword. One...
Thanks for more background on the sword. One other thin g I wonder about is the apparent cleaning of the oxidation from the ricasso up that is shown in this attachment. Something is odd to me about...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th December 2009, 12:52 AM
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What determines this to be a confederate...
What determines this to be a confederate presentation? I am not familiar with the theme, nor have you mentioned much description of it in this thread. Etched yes, how would you better describe the...
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Forum: European Armoury
13th December 2009, 01:42 AM
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Can you share a profile picture of the entire...
Can you share a profile picture of the entire hilt? Any markings on the casting itself? I don't see anything but a smudged blur on the spine of the blade, so I guess it could read as anything. One...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
13th December 2009, 12:04 AM
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My guess for the blade and I concur with late...
My guess for the blade and I concur with late 19th century and into the 20th century for origin of make up.
http://www.arms2armor.com/Swords/fren1887iof.htm
Continental as well, my thinking but...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd August 2009, 05:55 AM
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Just a guess on my part but I'll look at some...
Just a guess on my part but I'll look at some other stuff. if we are seeing this on predominately cavalry swords, I would say it is for retreiving one's reins (or possibly fashionable to retreive...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th July 2009, 11:27 PM
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The WPI/Forgeng index of artifacts displays a...
The WPI/Forgeng index of artifacts displays a good number of examples.
http://users.wpi.edu/~jforgeng/CollectionIQP/artifactsearch.pl?anum=&sortstyle=pata
What I have read of them indicates age...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th July 2009, 04:00 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th July 2009, 02:19 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th July 2009, 07:49 PM
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Replies: 46
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Hi Gonzalo,
I am not quite sure why you...
Hi Gonzalo,
I am not quite sure why you would offer a link back to this very thread? The pictures attached here were done so for ease of viewing and all of them had been posted to the thread I had...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th July 2009, 03:34 AM
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Replies: 46
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Here is a picture that appears on the clasp of...
Here is a picture that appears on the clasp of these. Just A&E Co. over the twisted/knotted bugle. As mentioned, I have come across quite similar ones. The blade is also labeled INOX, so we can...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th July 2009, 12:48 AM
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Replies: 46
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Some knives of Argentina that were posted in...
Some knives of Argentina that were posted in regard to distiction between facon and chucillo. These were offered by a fellow in Argentina during an internet discussion entitled Dressed To Kill,...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd July 2009, 06:19 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd July 2009, 03:20 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
20th July 2009, 08:00 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
16th July 2009, 03:53 AM
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My thoughts on hearts mentioned elsewhere in...
My thoughts on hearts mentioned elsewhere in 2005.
http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=5081
As the Holy Roman Empire lasted well into exporting themes from the continent, I do tend to...
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Forum: European Armoury
16th July 2009, 03:12 AM
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Replies: 107
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Well, yes, of course Mowbray does picture an...
Well, yes, of course Mowbray does picture an example by Thurkle (it is on the front of his cloth bound) but I cannot associate some of the other examples I have shown this thread and elsewhere,...
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