Come on chaps.
Cheer up, no need to take oneselfs so seriously.
A lot of defensivess some of which was based within your owns needs & internal veiws of the world perhaps?
It only an old dagger after all, even if the quantity of posts generated in such a short time do show it tpo be rather rather powerfull as well as rare & possiblyunique one.
& lets face it we have flogged this horse to death, resurected it , nailed it upside down & you still wish to thrash it again.
You percieve my comments in the way you do, I do the same with yours.
I have never read so much pompus bluster before that is clearly just to do with faith & belief.
sorry I am used to more in depth research reports & concepts from proffesionals & indeed my younger students. I apologise that my expectations were to high.
But thankyou to evryone who has helped in whatever way, particularily those who provided sources for further research or photographs of further examples of the correct way
to veiw these 19th century figural pieces in relation to scabbard orientation.
If any one ever finds anything concrete as a source about these figurals please email, even if its in 5 years time. I will always be intrested.
It would have been intresting to have had a piece where each person put there childhood religious belief system next to there repleys.{whether they accepted it or later rebeled.}
If I ever find out anything more concrete I will repost it, my research has only just begun.
Glad you all injoyed the band wagon! That so many clearly felt the need to join. Always intresting studying that effect.
Many thanks for the emails & offers.
But it is a keeper.
Spiral