Timonium 2007 Roll-Call
 

Who's going?

Me! :D

Incidentally, I did not mention it in my announcement because it was a call for presentations and not the formal announcement of the seminar, but the Timonium Seminar is sponsored, as every year, by Oriental-Arms (Artzi and Avner Yarom). The support of Oriental-Arms has allowed us to really raise the level of the seminar experience.

Also, WHERE ARE YOUR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS?!!!! :p :p

l know lots of you are lurking out there - I see your footprints in the snow around the announcement. ;) Take the plunge. Or for that matter, tell me its a horrible idea so we can revise the plans to include more than the two featured speakers.

I hope to be there, else there be a shortage or waxed domes(bald heads)!!

I plan on being there and highly recommend it to any who can make it. Every year I have been has been very educational, alot of fun and a good meal. Not to mention you get to spend the day at the largest antique arms show on the east coast.

Count me in!

I'm going to be there this year and really look forward to seeing everybody!!!
Rsword....bring a huge sword of some kind for swinging in the parking lot shadows!!:) ala' the Highlander!!
This event just keeps getting better and better, and I'll never forget the great times we've always had in years past.

All the best,
Jim

Me too.

lol. Are you sure you want to make the trip? :D

I already have my hotel room. Looking forward to the Irish pub and drinking too much in the lobby and discussing...well...swords. Good to see Chaaahles is coming, bless his heaaaht.

I'll stop by. Of course I live just and hour down the road.

Jim,

I think we burnt the midnight oil that evening but it was lots of fun! Looking forward to seeing you again along with everyone else. I believe this is year 5 or 6 and I have enjoyed each and every one of them.

This will be year 6. I went back and put together a list of all of the speakers of years past, except the first year (I remember Lee, Erik and Philip spoke, but I forget who else, and exactly on what). It is quite an impressive roster:

2006 Seminar Speakers
Ann Feuerbach, "Research Into the History of Wootz Steel"
Ric Furrer, "Metallurgical Aspects and Modern Wootz Making"
Rick Stroud, "Common Patterns On Wootz Blades"
Wolf-Dieter Miersch, "African Shields"
Lee Jones, "Weapons of the Tuareg"

2005 Seminar Speakers
Kate Raphael (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), "The Archeology of Battlefields in the Holy Land, 12th &13th Centuries"
Charley Hodges, "An Excavated Medieval Sword Find from Czechoslovakia"
Lee Jones, "Medieval European Swords with Alexandria Arsenal Inscriptions"
Jonathan Barret, "Indian Swords and the Empirical Tradition"
Charles Saunders & Rick Stroud, "The Piso Podang and Its Relation to the Indian Tulwar"
Richard Wagner, "Coral Decorated Weapons"
Robert Hales, "Notes on Interesting Piah Kaetta Knives"
John Powell, "Styles of Nepali & Indian Koras"
Weapons of Vietnam:
Nick Wardigo, "The Double-edged Sword (Kiem): Its Design, Construction and Decoration."
Scott Rodell, "Functional Characteristics of the Kiem, as Compared with the Chinese Jian (demonstration)"
Philip Tom, "Single-edged Weapons (Dao and Guom)"
Ian Greaves, "Edged Weapons of the Highland"

2004 Seminar Speakers
Robert Elgood, "New Ideas on South Indian Weapons"
Jeffrey Forgeng (Curator, Higgins Armory Museum), "Ethnographic Weapons at the Higgins Armory Museum"
Andrew Winston, "Unusual Dah"
Anthony Tirri, "Sword Breaker from India"
Artzi Yarom, "19th Century Moghul Shield"
Robert Hales, "The Keris Dagger of Captain Swan"
Lee Jones, "Find or Fake: An Excavated European Medieval Sword"

2003 Seminar Speakers
Philip Tom, "The Influences of the Islamic world on the Decorative Affectations on Chinese sabers of the 16th-18th Century"
Jim McDougall, "On the Evolution of Several Swords in the Maghreb"
Charles Saunders, "Typology and Terminology of Indonesian (non-Keris) Blades"
Oliver Pinchot, "Observations on the Assad Allah Signature"
Dan Margni, "Development of Blade Patterns from Laminated and Twisted Structures"
Anthony Tirri, "Black Sea Yatagans, Are They Really Turkish?"
Mark Bowditch, "Common Fabrication Techniques Seen in Dahs"
Jim Manteris, "Swords of the King of Kings - Ethiopia"
Barry Parks, "Old Jade Maori Mere Club"
Ian Greaves, "New purchases from Manila"
John Powell, "The Khukuri of the Maharajah of Sirmoor"
Artzi Yarom, "Blade manufacturing in Pakistan in the 21st Century (video presentation)"

2002 Seminar Speakers (the inaugural year)
Erik Farrow
Lee Jones
Philip Tom
Others (but who, anyone remember?)

In the first year, which was held in a seafood restaurant where you had to speak loudly above the sound of crunching crab legs, additional speakers were Jimmy Manteris with some nice examples of Fijian clubs and John Powell with an early Kukri with gold inlaid mark.

Why, Nick, thank ya'll for thinking uh lil ole me. I DEclare I do believe I will have to buy you a mint julip in the hotel lobby. ;) WE can then sit around and discuss some of the lighter aspects of the War of Northern Aggression, or what I think ya'll call the Civil Whoa-ah.

I TALKED TO JIMMY MANTERIS LAST NIGHT AND HE IS COMING TO TIMONIUM THIS YEAR. IT TURNED OUT THAT IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY SO I CALLED AT A GOOD TIME. hE STILL CAN'T TYPE WELL ENOUGH ON THE COMPUTER TO SEND EMAIL SO THOUGHT I WOULD LET YOU KNOW.

I STILL DON'T KNOW IF I WILL MAKE IT THIS YEAR OR NOT, WISH I COULD AS I HAVE MISSED THE LAST 2 YEARS. :(

I will try and be there but I may need to make other arrangements this year.

Lew

2007 Seminar
 

Hi Mark,

I'm very interested in the Seminar.
Would love to have a lot of pictures and upload the Speakers papers for this year. Will be glad to create a site for this year event.

Best.
Antonio

I would love to come, but alas once again I am in a financial situation with a new job and cannot afford to go. :( I hope to come next year (when things will be more settled? :shrug: ).

I have some photos from last year, which I have been meaning to edit and post for, oh, about a year now. :o

We'll be taking more this year, too. It would be nice to have archive pages for the seminars. Let's talk. :)

Okay :)

I'll be there and looking forward to it!
Steve Ferguson

I'm out again this year. :(

Sorry you won't be there Andrew

Thanks, John. My job would be perfect if it weren't for all the work. :shrug:

Have a great time! :)

Hi All

Now that the east coast is being hit with this lovely snow storm the day before the show I'm sure it will effect certain peoples travel plans so better double with the airlines about delays. I will hopefully have no problems with Amtrak but you never know :eek: Hope to see you all there.

Lew