Forum: Swap Forum
4th July 2024, 11:26 AM
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Scotland - Independence Day
Perhaps the moderators, on this auspicious day, will allow this plug for my very first novel.
Scotland - Independence Day tells the story of a group of people who conspire over many years to mount...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th June 2024, 05:45 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 18,950
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
11th June 2024, 11:47 AM
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Views: 14,630
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Forum: European Armoury
4th June 2024, 07:20 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 15,602
Terminology is always interesting!
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Terminology is always interesting!
Essentially a Poll Axe is a meaningless term as all axes have them.
The Poll of an axe, as A. G. Maisey has already said, is the opposite end of the head to...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd June 2024, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 15,602
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
29th April 2024, 10:37 AM
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Replies: 12
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Forum: European Armoury
27th March 2024, 05:57 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
21st March 2024, 01:12 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,866
Ok. So that probably makes it a little on the...
Ok. So that probably makes it a little on the large size for a personal belt carried hatchet.
I have looked through the books that I have that include axes - Salaman, Kauffman and even Neumann -...
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Forum: European Armoury
20th March 2024, 11:17 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,866
I would tend to agree.
I have not seen one...
I would tend to agree.
I have not seen one like this before but it is similar to other European fire axes from the days when firefighters all carried their own personal hatchets. Do you have...
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Forum: European Armoury
5th March 2024, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 14,359
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Forum: European Armoury
5th March 2024, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 14,359
A frigate would carry at least 100 cutlasses -...
A frigate would carry at least 100 cutlasses - more on larger vessels - so the chances of one with a single digit number surviving are 10 to 1. Move that to bayonets where there are tens of thousands...
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Forum: European Armoury
5th March 2024, 10:28 AM
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Views: 14,359
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Forum: European Armoury
4th March 2024, 09:41 PM
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Views: 14,359
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Forum: European Armoury
14th February 2024, 08:52 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,146
Yes, one of the great collectors and happy to...
Yes, one of the great collectors and happy to share his knowledge. He had a huge collection and one afternoon with him was not nearly enough! I concentrated on the naval axes and cutlasses but I...
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Forum: European Armoury
14th February 2024, 04:11 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,146
Ouch! And yes Mark, I have that dream too!
I...
Ouch! And yes Mark, I have that dream too!
I believe there is only one Type 1 in the UK and I got to handle it a few years back when Sim Comfort kindly let me view his collection.
regards, CC
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Forum: European Armoury
14th February 2024, 11:18 AM
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Views: 8,146
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2024, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 13,758
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd January 2024, 03:17 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 13,758
Thank you, Udo, such good information!
But...
Thank you, Udo, such good information!
But that seems to indicate a connection with Lacaille as gunmakers rather than suppliers. Perhaps they were both?
I am wondering if the lack of a makers...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd January 2024, 12:37 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 13,758
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd January 2024, 11:27 AM
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Views: 13,758
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd January 2024, 11:13 AM
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Views: 13,758
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Forum: European Armoury
1st January 2024, 03:49 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 13,758
Thanks Fernando K and Fernando. So I guess a...
Thanks Fernando K and Fernando. So I guess a later date makes more sense and possibly a later member of the family or even supplier.
I'm afraid even under bright light and magnifying glass the...
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Forum: European Armoury
1st January 2024, 12:05 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 13,758
Lacaille Pistol
Hi all,
I'm looking for a bit more information on this percussion pistol. Firearms are generally outside my area of interest but this looked good quality and had no bidders so I decided to go for...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
13th December 2023, 12:16 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 12,017
Hi Ken,
Leather boarding helmets are...
Hi Ken,
Leather boarding helmets are interesting and may well be the high point of desirables for naval collectors!
Gilkerson states that only two US examples are known and one possibly British....
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
12th December 2023, 07:50 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 12,017
Hi Ken,
Also a close match to 19th century...
Hi Ken,
Also a close match to 19th century Welsh/ Cornish leather mining helmet. Probably more of these survived than the US boarding helmet! Check google and you'll see what I mean.
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