Forum: European Armoury
24th August 2020, 07:06 PM
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The PC decided that it needed a new software...
The PC decided that it needed a new software version and now it is not connecting to the camera...
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I will use a different way...
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No improvements. Maybe after changing light...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th August 2020, 06:31 PM
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The sword arrived.
On the spine it is...
The sword arrived.
On the spine it is written in cursive:
Real Fabrica de Toledo. Año de 1818
On the brass hilt J.VALVANERA. No other markings.
Thus the blade comes from a Spanish cavalry...
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Forum: European Armoury
15th August 2020, 04:47 PM
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Yes of course. I do not have it yet. The thing...
Yes of course. I do not have it yet. The thing was found in Spain.
There is a maker stamp on the brass hilt, that possibly says Ibarzabal, who also cast the hilts for troop swords until the 1830s,...
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Forum: European Armoury
13th August 2020, 11:33 PM
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Masonic hilt with... a French Cuirassier blade?
Somehow I have a tendency to pick weird pieces...
This one seems to be a French Cuirassier blade mounted with a brass masonic hilt and bone grip.
It was rather cheap. It will be interesting to...
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Forum: European Armoury
13th August 2020, 06:47 PM
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Replies: 16
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I think you have two inscriptions from two...
I think you have two inscriptions from two different times/places.
The one with Me fecit Solingen has "E"s that you often find in XVIIth German exports into Spain, imitating a sort of Spanish...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
3rd July 2020, 11:44 AM
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Replies: 34
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd July 2020, 10:03 PM
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Replies: 4
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Forum: European Armoury
30th June 2020, 10:39 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
21st June 2020, 10:17 PM
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Replies: 4
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Unidentified hanger. Dutch?
Hello.
Recently I got this piece I cannot identify with certainty.
My current hypothesis is that it could be naval Dutch, blade resembles some VOC XVIIIth century ones and it has something like...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st June 2020, 09:31 PM
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Replies: 3
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No visible way of attachment. A possibility is...
No visible way of attachment. A possibility is that the rim was sawed off, for whatever reason, but there are no clear signals of that either.
About the colonial description, we have to think that...
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Forum: European Armoury
9th June 2020, 06:23 PM
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Replies: 59
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I would take Enrique Coel as a sort of Runkel,...
I would take Enrique Coel as a sort of Runkel, 80-100 years in advance, and along 80 years. However it is possible to group the graphics and caligraphies. For example, the blades in the 1728 model...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th June 2020, 12:27 PM
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Cavalry cup hilt
I just got a nice cup hilt with a military blade. Similar blades with the inscriptions "xESPADEROxxENxxALMANIA" and "xMISINALxxESELxxNOMBRExDxIESU", can be found with cavalry officer swords of the...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th June 2020, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 65,725
For the identity of the German blade maker,...
For the identity of the German blade maker, possibly numbers 49 and 88 of this catalogue are relevant.
https://www.yumpu.com/es/document/read/14248165/catalogo-de-armas-recindd-junta-de-andalucia...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd June 2020, 01:23 PM
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Replies: 59
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Very nice sword Fernando.
I believe these...
Very nice sword Fernando.
I believe these swords were the Spanish (Portugal) current infantry soldier swords between 1660-1710. Kept longer in the Americas. In a similar function to infantry...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th January 2020, 12:56 PM
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Replies: 21
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Forum: European Armoury
20th January 2020, 05:37 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 30,957
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th December 2019, 01:49 AM
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Replies: 70
Views: 78,897
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Forum: European Armoury
11th December 2019, 03:08 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th November 2019, 06:49 PM
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A new example (number 13th) of these swords...
A new example (number 13th) of these swords surfaced six months ago in Spain.
This has the inscriptions:
“POR MI LEY Y POR MI REY”.
And the name of owner, province, village and rack number:...
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Forum: European Armoury
11th November 2019, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 12
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I have some opinions on the Boca de...
I have some opinions on the Boca de caballo/shells hilts. The first curious thing is that you do not find them in Spanish swords prior to 1650s.
Searching for phylogenetic relations, the most...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th November 2019, 05:44 PM
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To me it seems to unelaborate to be a civilian...
To me it seems to unelaborate to be a civilian weapon at the end of XVII or beginning XVIII th centuries.
I have in my pictures collection a similar hilt piece, specially at the reinforcing pas d...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th November 2019, 05:29 PM
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Dissimilar shells rapier... Portuguese?
I just got this piece. I bought it thinking it could be an officer version of the Spanish 1728 model cavalry sword, but I am not sure that is correct.
Probably the sword is earlier than what I...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st October 2019, 11:20 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 58,594
I remember I read some 12 years ago:
GOGAN,...
I remember I read some 12 years ago:
GOGAN, Art. Fighting Iron. A metals Handbook for Arms Collectors. Lincoln 1999, Andrew Mowbray. ISBN 0 917218 86 8.
SMITH, Cyril Stanley. A History of...
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Forum: European Armoury
16th October 2019, 03:42 PM
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Replies: 11
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Forum: European Armoury
24th September 2019, 12:38 PM
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