Forum: European Armoury
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2024, 07:11 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2024, 02:33 PM
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Legendary, thank you so much for the further...
Legendary, thank you so much for the further rationale here!
So if I understand correctly these bladed 'tools' which myself and the collectors/dealers etc and authors of numbers of references have,...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2024, 03:03 AM
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Radboud, these notes and observations are...
Radboud, these notes and observations are outstanding and I thank you so much for detailing them out so well, and well illustrated . While I have good familiarity with British military swords you and...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 04:56 PM
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Prohibited? there are NO knives from Canary...
Prohibited? there are NO knives from Canary Islands?
In going through discussions involving the Canary Islands 'naife', the collective term for edged weapons from this archipelago which is part...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
25th March 2024, 03:41 PM
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Very well noted! and this venerable family of...
Very well noted! and this venerable family of makers in Oaxaca have produced many weapons bearing notable influences such as this. The so called 'Spanish Main' existed well through the 19th century,...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 03:27 PM
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Thank you Peter!
These 'spadroons' are...
Thank you Peter!
These 'spadroons' are typically I think considered a 'pattern' of 1786 (unofficially) and were popular infantry officers swords which also became well known in naval contexts as...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 03:17 PM
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Thank you for this key information! and...
Thank you for this key information! and correction is excellent, not only much appreciated but very much sought after.
I had not known of the Osborn letter stamping on blades, which in this case...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 02:56 PM
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Pertinax, thank you so much for adding this...
Pertinax, thank you so much for adding this detailed synopsis of Sweden's regal historical figures and background. This is exactly the kind of perspective I was hoping for!
As I noted, there is...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2024, 05:11 AM
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th March 2024, 09:59 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 09:28 PM
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Peter, good notes! However going back through...
Peter, good notes! However going back through research , Andrew Mowbrays "The American Eagle Pommel Sword" (1988) and the 'unthinkable', using the search here :) I found some interesting things.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
24th March 2024, 03:08 PM
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Robert, thank you so much for the personal...
Robert, thank you so much for the personal response. You raise interesting points, and having an open approach to investigating the viability of the many apocryphal stories in 'collectors lore' in...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 03:09 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2024, 02:10 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd March 2024, 08:33 PM
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Pertinax, thank you so much for sharing these...
Pertinax, thank you so much for sharing these outstanding examples! As I noted we dont have much on Scandinavian swords here overall, but it is great to have these as a point of reference.
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
23rd March 2024, 08:21 PM
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It is generally held that the 'genoui' is a...
It is generally held that the 'genoui' is a straight bladed 'koumyya' dagger of Algeria which is a variant if the Arab janbiyya from the Maghreb.
The apocryphal story for the term has always been...
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd March 2024, 04:23 PM
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This is pretty phenomenal Phil!
A British...
This is pretty phenomenal Phil!
A British dragoon sword with the relatively rare triangular knuckleguard in the semi basket hilt. Clearly all the components are old and original however what is...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd March 2024, 06:40 PM
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As previously noted in my earlier post, the...
As previously noted in my earlier post, the inscription on the obverse (?) side of the blade is actually not 'nonsense' but though not readable as far as wording, the letters typically have singular...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd March 2024, 01:22 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
18th March 2024, 05:52 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
13th March 2024, 05:56 PM
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Im glad you caught that Shayde! (posts #7,10)....
Im glad you caught that Shayde! (posts #7,10). Trust me, this conundrum has plagued me since the mid 90s, and honestly as I pestered sources in museums, authors, fencing masters and everyplace I...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd March 2024, 05:16 PM
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In ongoing research on this intriguing old...
In ongoing research on this intriguing old knife/stylus, there are certain inherent qualities that render it having maritime possibility, despite not being an item specifically for such context. The...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd March 2024, 05:01 PM
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Thanks Glen!
The issue with English armor and...
Thanks Glen!
The issue with English armor and weapons and poor quality was a problem well beyond this period, in fact through the 17th century into the 18th. Henry VIII who took reign in 1509 was...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd March 2024, 03:30 AM
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Not at all, the down turned quillons are...
Not at all, the down turned quillons are basically from Qajar Persia, along with the stylized dragon/etc quillon terminals. Persia was a primary influence throughout Afghanistan, Northern India,...
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