European Armoury [Archive] - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

Weird personalized Spanish 1728 cavalry sword (0 replies)
Sword 12/13 century or not? (3 replies)
Saber what kind? (0 replies)
Spanish Cavalry or British Engineer? (4 replies)
16th century round shield (7 replies)
A Revolutionary War-era boarding pike head (3 replies)
A plug Bayonet with possible VOC markings? (2 replies)
Masonic sword with skull & crossbones (2 replies)
British Infantry Officers Battle Swords in the 19th C...and up to 1914 (56 replies)
Gordon Highlanders Officer Sword Maj Miller Wallnutt (0 replies)
Portuguese cavalry troopers sabre. (17 replies)
Did Scottish highlanders manufacture their own weapons, or were they all imports? (10 replies)
XRF examination of an early Viking Age sword (Petersen type B) (1 replies)
Help with WW1 stanpings pls. (1 replies)
Gilding on European Medieval Swords (14 replies)
Early GI knife (10 replies)
Halberd (4 replies)
Italian {Solingen} 1860 (3 replies)
Advice to novice? (1 replies)
Republic of the Seven United Islands sword (3 replies)
A curious hatchet (2 replies)
Rondel dagger 15th century (2 replies)
Junk or Roman spearhead? (0 replies)
Basket hilted sword Austrian (2 replies)
Styrian basket hilted sword and Styrian dusage (14 replies)
Italian rapier (3 replies)
interesting book (10 replies)
The Ayzavilla or Crowned T Bilbos mistery solved (3 replies)
XL.german hunting sword , old blade with wheel and gallows (11 replies)
A Pair of Pike Heads,but from Where ? (7 replies)
Unknown Spanish colonial or Mexican Basket Hilted sabre (18 replies)
No place for this but I feel like sharing (2 replies)
Brass Hilt Dirk (22 replies)
An iron hand grenade ca 1700 (7 replies)
Patty Fergusen's Pistols (10 replies)
Help Identifying Sword (5 replies)
Passau Wolf of Solingen (7 replies)
BEIDANA unusual weapon Piedmont regions Italy (2 replies)
Old handcannon with smaller breech (7 replies)
Neopolitan Schiavona of Third Coalition 1793-1806 (2 replies)
Montmorency blade in late 18th c. British military swords (3 replies)
Wheellock engraving (0 replies)
Relic Roman Gladius Sword (1 replies)
Pattern British Sword? (25 replies)
Victorian sword stick esoterica (30 replies)
A Munition Armor (0 replies)
The ZULU shotgun, catchy trade names 1880s (5 replies)
request for information (0 replies)
+VLFBERHT: name? Brand? Invocation? (17 replies)
Wild west and suicide special revolvers (9 replies)
Excavated dusagge from near Culloden site (2 replies)
Scottish Dirk? (11 replies)
Wolves and cutlers (4 replies)
Karabela, any thoughts, which century, origin? (12 replies)
A Hand and a Half (27 replies)
Very Early Scottish broadsword blade in Indian PATA (10 replies)
Here is my other hunting sword (29 replies)
Hunting Sword (12 replies)
Circassian Shashka mid 19th tamga on scabbard chape (3 replies)
Michael Tromner Collection (2 replies)
Breech Block from swivel gun resembling QAR example 2016 (2 replies)
Corpse carrier sword 19thc Austro-Hungary and mourning swords (10 replies)
Stone cannonball? (7 replies)
CIVIL WAR question..Ballard .44 rimfire single shot (27 replies)
later Landsknecht sabre (4 replies)
Unknown brass hilt (6 replies)
Scottish basket hilt elements (19 replies)
Pepperbox pistol 1840s? (11 replies)
Scottish belt pistol J D DOUGALL Glasgow (9 replies)
Pre Culloden English dragoon basket hilt? (10 replies)
The German Swordmakers in Shotley Bridge (5 replies)
Naval Dirk? (12 replies)
Happy July 4th! (6 replies)
Caucasian percussion pistol ? (8 replies)
basket hilt (5 replies)
Question regarding ore used (20 replies)
Peter Munsten and family (9 replies)
OK Corral and coach guns (18 replies)
Maker's Mark? (13 replies)
Old short sword? (6 replies)
Baskethilt Dagger for ID and discussion (8 replies)
Help with these daggers, please (3 replies)
From Gauls to Vikings (0 replies)
Revolutionary War era side knife/dagger (16 replies)
Dagger, child dagger, “kidney dagger”? (5 replies)
Schiavona pommel (36 replies)
Damaged Boarding Axe? (17 replies)
Dagger for identification and discussion (20 replies)
Smallsword with the coat of arms and motto of the House of Orange-Nassau (8 replies)
Boarding weapons from the Trafalgar era (10 replies)
Mexican court or officers sword c.1820s (5 replies)
maker's mark (4 replies)
Skull hilt on Napoleonic blade-Masonic? (2 replies)
Help identifying axe (3 replies)
Recognize this? (5 replies)
British Boarding Pike Gauge. (2 replies)
French colichemarde (18 replies)
Hello everyone, newcomer report (2 replies)
Cutting Edges (18 replies)
Smallsword with a hunting (?) motif (3 replies)
Hollow blades (2 replies)
Reproductions (21 replies)
War Hammer? (8 replies)
Hussar saber, real or not? (14 replies)
Tomahawk (4 replies)
Close ups of the Pavia Tapestries (2 replies)
Seeking Information on a Small Sword (6 replies)
Richard Burton reference (7 replies)
Sandbar Bowie? (11 replies)
unknows sword (2 replies)
Mecklenburg M1849 Artillery Saber (1 replies)
Italian Readers-CASTEL SANT ANGELO (7 replies)
New Sword Collector Seeking Input (10 replies)
Help with butt plate ID (0 replies)
Rapier (4 replies)
unknown rifle (5 replies)
A zweihander... (15 replies)
Old scabbard identification (6 replies)
British LC 1796 sabre in Spanish use (5 replies)
Cannon Balls (7 replies)
Lucerne Hammer, Luzerner Hammer, mordaxt (6 replies)
Silver hilted (16 replies)
1796 LCS - Early Woolley Blade with Later WDD Scabbard? (14 replies)
Relic Lock ID help (4 replies)
French Boarding Axe? (6 replies)
Polish saber a gem or im robed (13 replies)
Hungarian hussar saber Fringia (23 replies)
Help Identifying Maker's Mark (4 replies)
those mysterious Colichemardes (14 replies)
Matchlock maker mark (4 replies)
Victorian Belt (0 replies)
German sword for coment (27 replies)
Sword from officer killed at Inkerman (6 replies)
A boarding axe for comments (8 replies)
An unknown mark ... can anyone help? (1 replies)
Swords in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1921 (20 replies)
Cartouche Axe (2 replies)
Maker's Mark ID Requested (17 replies)
cannonballs.... (19 replies)
arquebus?? (0 replies)
Magnate (nobleman) saber from Croatia (13 replies)
English Rondel Dagger with inscription (0 replies)
Early Youth? Fencing Foil (2 replies)
Briquet Sword Identification (2 replies)
what kind of rapier are we taling 'bout..? (3 replies)
Late 18th c. to mid. 19th c. Santa Cruz de Mudela dagger (6 replies)
IDENTIFICATION (1 replies)
Halbart F E Z O, ferdinand erzherzog von osterreich, later german emporer ferdinad ll (4 replies)
watercolour drawings by Aleksander Lesser (1814-1884) (0 replies)
Two small daggers for comment/identification (15 replies)
Pappenheimers (2 replies)
Did officers also tie swordknots to suspension rings? (3 replies)
A WW 1 Era Saber (10 replies)
Boarding Axe? (5 replies)
Burgonet: Solothurn arsenal number? (7 replies)
Arms collecting and nostalgia (34 replies)
French (?) Schepeler stag horn navaja (19 replies)
Karabela european? (21 replies)
US Surcharge Hatchet? (3 replies)
A proto-American boarding axe? (17 replies)
Swiss saber with inscription "ANNA" (?) (15 replies)
NAVAJA- CATALONIAN (3 replies)
repurposed rapier blades (13 replies)
Merry Christmas (3 replies)
Modernizing the Documentation of Historical Weapons Collections (14 replies)
Edged arms in Varazdin castle (17 replies)
European Officer's Sword ? (9 replies)
Original Arms and Armour Illustrations (5 replies)
The "Tizona" of Béjar (4 replies)
Rochefort.... (3 replies)
Edged arms in Trakošcan castle, Croatia (12 replies)
Skull head romantique stiletto (5 replies)
Swords in Dubrovnik (12 replies)
Parrying dagger (6 replies)
Interesting font on the engravings of a small sword blade (0 replies)
Beidana? Fauchard? Is this even a sword blade? (3 replies)
WWI US Naval Chief's Knives (6 replies)
Beautiful Stiletto - Any Info? (7 replies)
Heavy steel mace (1 replies)
Where's the Wootz? (21 replies)
Old hunting dagger (4 replies)
11.11.11 (2 replies)
Interesting Axe-Type (2 replies)
XVII Century Bollock Dagger - Request for Info (5 replies)
ARMADA PERUANA smallsword (1 replies)
Miscellaneous Landeszeughaus Graz (0 replies)
Pole arms in Landeszeughaus Graz (3 replies)
Revolutionary War to Federalist period cutlass (12 replies)
Armour in Landeszeughaus Graz (10 replies)
Brothers from a different bladesmith - Two quite similar small swords (6 replies)
A Pair of Mexican Naval Swords (6 replies)
Running wolf on Timor sword (5 replies)
Landeszeughaus Graz (14 replies)
Fernando, may he Rest in Peace (32 replies)
italian Fascist Knife ? (3 replies)
Help with some French swords (8 replies)
Mystery Military Knife (9 replies)
French army. M1866 bayonet (7 replies)
Schiavona for comment (2 replies)
Russian Shashka (3 replies)
Glasgow Hilt? (17 replies)
Pommel (2 replies)
German ? Style Halberd for comment (3 replies)
Old sword with inscriptions (2 replies)
Unusual Sword (11 replies)
Saber for identification. (7 replies)
British 1796 HCS pattern blade shape (15 replies)
Small Sword Dutch or French (15 replies)
Looking for a source of sword (pommel) xrays (3 replies)
"Norman" style arming sword found in Linschoten (2 replies)
Sword bayonet (7 replies)
Fine Pappenheimer Rapier (7 replies)
Percussion rifle, for poaching? (1 replies)
The "Bushy Tailed Fox" story (8 replies)
Union 1860 Field and Staff Officer Sword? (4 replies)
Any idea about this dagger and marks? (3 replies)
Wheel gun (4 replies)
Schiavona real or fake? 🧐 (10 replies)
Side sword with Victorian chiseled hilt? (23 replies)
The new life of the sabre blade. (21 replies)
interesting blog item on daggers (1 replies)
Latest arrival, another Albacete dagger. (0 replies)
Your thoughts on this cup hilt rapier or broadsword? (5 replies)
The Sword of John Hampden(?) (15 replies)
Origin and age of a dagger with pierced blade (6 replies)
All Iron Spike Tomahawk (0 replies)
Medieval style helmet (6 replies)
How common was the use of Polish/Ottoman Sabres in Western Europe in the 1500s? (0 replies)
Brass cannon with gun carriage and limber (3 replies)
My first sword (9 replies)
Identification of rapier (15 replies)
Massive Hewer ? (8 replies)
Roman Dagger in fine museum restored condition (2 replies)
1576 dated musket - unknown marking (13 replies)
Basket-hilted (cage-hilt) sword for discussion (12 replies)
a puzzle (12 replies)
unknown maker'stamp (2 replies)
Crude Made Dagger; Opinions Please (6 replies)
Question regarding the origin of the grip construction on these European style swords (14 replies)
Reference book (1 replies)
Giant British 1788 Light Cavalry Sabre (5 replies)
Large opening in the throat of the sabre. (4 replies)
Odd little barrel (11 replies)
Close helmet - what's the origin / type (7 replies)
Matchlock for comments - apparently from Emden armory (2 replies)
A beautiful sword by LEPAGE MOUTIER (2 replies)
Solingen Sword With Dragon Etching? (1 replies)
Viking axe with christian cross? Pictures. (18 replies)
Another Split-Shot (5 replies)
Cup-hilted rapier for comments (12 replies)