Period Photos of People with Ethnographic Arms

[gp]

Originally Posted by gp

Lavian Riflemen, AKA "strelniki"

Part of the Russian Imperial Army, in WW I about 30.000 men around 1917
Some later joined the Bolshevik revolution and hence its army
The majority remained in Latvia to protect the country due to an internal strugle and instability,
caused by 3 governments fighting for control ( German, Sovjet and Latvian) untill Latvia's independance 1920/22

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...&postcount=343

a couple more pics of these soldiers and their swords

[gp]

two sculptures by Jean Francois Theodore Gechter ; one an Ottoman warrior and the other a scene from the battle of Aboukir

[Ian]

gp, do you know who the king on horseback is supposed to be?

[gp]

Originally Posted by Ian

gp, do you know who the king on horseback is supposed to be?

Unfortunately not: the only title on this sculpture is “ Guerrier à Cheval “ , i.e. warrior on horse and made end 19th century. Sometimes “Ottoman” added to warrior on some of the literature describing this piece of art.

[gp]

with reference to a resent topic, one of the early pics in "the West" of these fierce and feared warriors

"Janissaire, Chef-Arciere, Comandante, et Bourreau Turc - XV -XVI Siècle" acquaforte originale ca. 15,5x25,5 cm by Raphael Jacquemin (1821 - 1881)
in a book of maps published by Delatre Paris in 1870

[gp]

some CDV's from the Ottoman Empire around 1860/70

[gp]

a few postcards from the DACH region between 1885 - 1913 with halberds: