Forum: European Armoury
11th April 2025, 10:13 PM
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Silver hilted
I recently acquired this silver hilted smallsword. The hilt is one of the finest I have ever seen but, unfortunately, the maker's hallmark (London) remains a mystery even after many hours of...
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Forum: European Armoury
11th April 2025, 09:56 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
10th April 2025, 09:46 PM
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ps
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Forum: European Armoury
10th April 2025, 09:45 PM
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Scandinavian colichemarde
Hello Glen. I am sorry to hear of your malady, you have my sympathy.
Thank-you for joining this thread; this sword strikes me as an anomaly. I don't understand what indicated Scandinavia... but...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th April 2025, 06:42 PM
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Replies: 14
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Wolf
It is mysterious Jim. Such an elaborate rendering of the Passau Wolf is entirely possible on an expensive blade down in Austria at that time. I will keep looking, because the fact that an almost...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th April 2025, 06:21 PM
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History
Keep it coming Jim; I'm learning. Just as so few are interested in or have anything to add to the Shotley Bridge history, that was the birth of the British sword industry, so too the huge theater...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th April 2025, 07:51 PM
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Time shift
Hello again Jim. Thank-you for running with this ball. You bring up in my memory two issues that might benefit from exposition: firstly, did the fluted blade arrive with Charles 2nd and brother...
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd April 2025, 09:37 PM
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ps
Just as an afterthought, here is a selection of blade shapes from the Diderot encyclopedia that shows the squeezed blades.
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd April 2025, 09:31 PM
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Boulton
Hi Jim. Thank-you for your erudite and considered follow-up to my post; as usual your contributions make all the difference to the forum's threads.
Your mention of Matthew Boulton reminded me that...
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Forum: European Armoury
1st April 2025, 07:03 PM
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those mysterious Colichemardes
This is an essay that has been eight years in the drafting and it begins with an unanswered question, although it has already been asked in various degrees amongst assorted cognoscenti as I nibbled...
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Forum: European Armoury
16th March 2025, 08:19 PM
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Time out
We are not exactly knee deep in activity on this site; I would have thought any interesting issues would be made more than welcome. I certainly welcome the opportunity to learn whatever and whenever...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th March 2025, 04:26 PM
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Mexican arms and armour
Hi Jim. Interesting question about an episode I know nothing about, so it begs the next question: are there arms and armour societies in Mexico?
You probably can't pop over and scope it out right...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th January 2025, 03:18 PM
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Replies: 15
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Forum: European Armoury
7th January 2025, 10:27 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
7th January 2025, 10:16 AM
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PS
Just a note: I love this sword.
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Forum: European Armoury
7th January 2025, 10:16 AM
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Replies: 15
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Thank-you Ulfberth
Thank-you for that information, which is all new to me.
Did you notice that there are the remains of additional lettering above the ANNA on one side.
Any clue as to what they might be.
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Forum: European Armoury
6th January 2025, 09:43 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
6th January 2025, 09:33 PM
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Replies: 13
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correction
Sorry, that was the wrong shell image; here is the correct one.
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Forum: European Armoury
6th January 2025, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 13
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Smallswords in North Britain in the 1600s
Those two smallswords were forged by Adam Oley in Shotley Bridge in c.1688.
They were hilted by a cutler in (The Side) Newcastle, name of Thomas Carnforth.
It is suspected, but as yet unconfirmed,...
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Forum: European Armoury
5th January 2025, 02:41 PM
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mea culpa
Yes, I absolutely mean 600 and 650gr... what was I thinking?!
Those are exactly the kind of early smallswords we find predominating up in the North of the British Isles. They were made in Shotley...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th January 2025, 11:42 AM
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something completely different - but...
Up here in the North of England, and over into Scotland, there existed (I know this because many still do) a lot of smallswords with narrow double edged blades.
It seems that, at first, the hollow...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th January 2025, 10:42 AM
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Replies: 13
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weight
One thing I didn't indicate was the weight of the two swords:
the hollow blade French smallsword is c.35g
the rapier blade Portuguese smallsword is c.40g
So, a little heavier, which is apparent...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2025, 09:36 PM
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length and balance
Well… so much for my theory!
I compared the Portuguese, rapier bladed, smallsword with a typical silver-hilted French hollow blade smallsword and surprise, surprise: both have 32" blades and both...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2025, 08:50 PM
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Replies: 3
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navaja
Hey Jim, these have always intrigued me. I often see them up to auction or for sale.
They remind me of Scottish dirks - in as much as they can be as deadly as a sword yet remain within the...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd January 2025, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 31,215
Weight
One thing is for certain, and that is the balance/weight of the rapier blade in a smallsword hilt: it is much further forward compared to a trefoil blade. This will certainly influence the style of...
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