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Forum: European Armoury 8th April 2011, 01:32 AM
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Posted By JUSTICESWORDS
Swords bearing names, etc.

Known examples of justice swords bearing the name of the executioner who owned/used the sword do exist.

The same goes for select execution axes.

But it is not common.

I have not seen any...
Forum: European Armoury 6th April 2011, 09:21 PM
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Posted By JUSTICESWORDS
Not always random

Hi Gene and thank you for the welcome.

Choosing the next local executioner was only random if the local justice officials could not find a family of executioners with a son needing a position.
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Forum: European Armoury 6th April 2011, 03:27 PM
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Posted By JUSTICESWORDS
One more thing of interest

Concerning execution swords.

Mr. Varesi in Sissach believes that it was the execution swords with very few, or perhaps not any, engravings on the blades that were used the most for actual...
Forum: European Armoury 6th April 2011, 03:20 PM
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Posted By JUSTICESWORDS
Thank you

For the kind words and welcome Jim!

I myself have just finished authoring a book called, "The Catalog of Cruelty: An Illustrated Collection of Ancient Restraints and Instruments of Torture and...
Forum: European Armoury 5th April 2011, 06:48 PM
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Posted By JUSTICESWORDS
The three holes in the tip of some execution swords

Greetings.
I am new here and I collect and have researched execution swords for some time.
I read here with interest, (as I have also read elsewhere on the www), people wondering what the three...
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