Forum: European Armoury
31st July 2025, 06:22 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th July 2025, 02:17 AM
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Thats a good question Lee, I have trouble with...
Thats a good question Lee, I have trouble with all these fancy terms. I would think writhen is a tighter 'weave', kinda like my shoelaces :( but its hard to say. This looks more like some sort of...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 06:09 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 05:11 PM
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It truly is fascinating to look into these...
It truly is fascinating to look into these conundrums! and I recall us discussing this amazing Hounslow example. The entire Hounslow enterprise, much like the later Shotley Bridge venture, was...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 04:46 PM
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It truly is fascinating to look into these...
It truly is fascinating to look into these conundrums! and I recall us discussing this amazing Hounslow example. The entire Hounslow enterprise, much like the later Shotley Bridge venture, was...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 06:36 AM
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Swords during the American Revolution
"...the sword remained as the symbol of manly honor through the eighteenth century and was especially favored among British military officers, often to the annoyance of the provincial Americans".
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 22
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Thank you Keith! Indeed, I have ventured into...
Thank you Keith! Indeed, I have ventured into this rabbit hole countless times over decades, and there are few who have queried these matters soundly. Many cursory entries in various works simply...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 04:32 AM
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Swords DO get around!
Eljay was right, this hilt is of a design which was popular for British cavalry officers, the brass, curled bars in guard, lionhead, gadrooned bone grip.
As he noted, he had owned the example here...
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Forum: European Armoury
29th July 2025, 03:57 AM
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Finally got it!
Today I received the book I've been waiting for:
"With Drawn Sword: Austro-Hungarian Edged Weapons from 1848-1918", M.Christian Ortner; Erich Artlieb, 2006, p.523,
This exact sword form is shown...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th July 2025, 03:40 PM
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This is an absolutely wonderful entry!!! Thank...
This is an absolutely wonderful entry!!! Thank you so much! The subject of Tipu is fascinating, and my friend Nidhi Olikara has studied this topic for many years and is well published on the subject....
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Forum: European Armoury
28th July 2025, 04:40 AM
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Replies: 22
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Good question. I think it went through the 18th...
Good question. I think it went through the 18th pretty well, as these magical conventions kept being applied on blades quite late. Batches of blades with cabalistic numbers, sigils etc. were known as...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th July 2025, 06:39 PM
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How did a pata end up with a Scottish blade?
According to some input on the other forum, this hilt with what appears some sort of representation of a lionhead? in the stylizing characteristic of much Indian art, and is believed to be associated...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
27th July 2025, 03:36 AM
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I dont know a lot on guns Ian, but those...
I dont know a lot on guns Ian, but those percussion hammers, like the whole setup look pretty weak. When I see these combination weapons I often wonder if they were used, or even intended to be used....
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th July 2025, 10:22 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th July 2025, 08:04 PM
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Good point Tim. This looks pretty rough, and...
Good point Tim. This looks pretty rough, and seems like most examples are pretty high end, more for the courts and officials. Apparently Maharaja Raja Ram Singh (1811-1889) was a big fan of...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th July 2025, 07:42 PM
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More to the soliloquy here,
Found a good...
More to the soliloquy here,
Found a good reference, "The Tiger and the Thistle" about the Scots in India and Tipu Sultan.
I'll keep everyone posted when it arrives! The games afoot Watson!
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
26th July 2025, 04:47 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
26th July 2025, 02:32 PM
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Thank you Keith! It appears we are among the...
Thank you Keith! It appears we are among the handful left standing here so I cannot thank you enough for posting.
The blade is most likely Styrian, though that denomination is a bit difficult as...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th July 2025, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 22
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Regarding the lion on the pommel, doubtful this...
Regarding the lion on the pommel, doubtful this has any particular value as far as any regal association or military order or unit etc. The lion was of course a ubiquitous figure in heraldry and its...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th July 2025, 09:20 PM
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Yuri excellent observations! and Fennic amazing...
Yuri excellent observations! and Fennic amazing insights into these forms, I look forward to your book as there is precious little material for those of us here in the west to study these arms in any...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th July 2025, 05:50 PM
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This is a beautiful example Norman! and these...
This is a beautiful example Norman! and these French versions (cuttoe) were so elegant, not only in the hilt design, but overall character. They were beautifully appointed and light, which seems to...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th July 2025, 05:30 PM
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Blade decoration hunting swords
From "Hunting Weapons" Howard Blackmore, 1971, p.42;
Discussing the magical signs and numbers often occurring on hunting sword blades "..most of these magical signs appear on hunting swords which...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th July 2025, 04:51 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th July 2025, 10:41 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th July 2025, 10:02 PM
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Replies: 22
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Thanks for the link to 'my armoury'...good ole...
Thanks for the link to 'my armoury'...good ole days!
Steyr was an Austrian arms center, it seems mostly for guns, but this obscure entry in Gardner ("Small Arms Makers", 1963) shows this curious...
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