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Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Jesus Christ Jim. Please give me a little credit. With the photos the person has as much information as anyone here. If he had an opinion he would have provided a rationale which I would have... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Sent some pictures off to a dealer pal of mine. Looks like a decorator to me. Blade and application of the markings seem odd. |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I bought this via ebay some years ago (10 maybe?). Length ~44" Weight Bore ~ 1.25" When I got it I found that it was loaded with a charge of BP. I flushed it and captured some of the powder... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() It is out of the Viscounts family now. If you go there some pics might be fun. I think of all fantasy existences, being an English aristocrat in the 1890's has to be up there. |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I have it, my mind is a sieve is all. I had a email relationship with Held for a while. His politics were inconsistent with mine so the relationship ended. Sorta funny actually. I'll tell you... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Funny thing ... I knew a woman, Brit, whose family lived in Shropshire, the current home of the current Viscount Boyne. Her Dad knew the Dowager and to make a long story short I got an intro and my... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I bought this armor some time ago. It was (as far as the provenience goes) the property of Viscount Boyne and was in his collection at Brancepeth Castle in Durham. I cataloged it back in the day,... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Yes. It's the Boyne Half Armor. I'll start a thread. |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I am in no rush at all. Getting an original lock would be nice but I could age a new one. I am wondering what the pan should look like. |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I will give thought to my next steps but I need to say ... Well used kitty litter, my friend, well used. :D Art forgery is not for the faint of heart. I also used Tannic Acid ... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I am resurrecting this thread to add a bit more information. Laird Landsmann did, indeed, purchase the sword from me. I didn't mention that detail because I was not sure how the Met was going to... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Thanks for your reply. If I proceed with the project it will be to imagine it as it was, sorta. So epoxy will be my friend. I have "aged" things here and there. One technique that I used as... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I bought this some time ago, actually I got Matchlock to scurry up to Nuremberg to bid for me, and it seems to me that it might benefit from being stocked in an era appropriate style. Nothing fancy,... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() These engravings show a classic 16th century battle scene with a medallion of Marcus Curtius descending into hell. For completeness I am also showing the medallion from the other side. This shows... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Schloss Erbach contains a well known armory from which piecs were sold at a number of well known sales early in the past century. The post card that is reproduced shows the sword on display. At... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() I was fortunate to own the sword that I am going to share with you. I obtained it from George Douglass, actually his estate after he died back in 1995. I sold it two years ago to the Met where it... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Replies: 33
Views: 7,072
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![]() Sort of. What it means is that something that is depicted must, necessarily, have been around for a while. Might be a year, might be a decade. Appearance in art can only tell you that the thing... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 7,072
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![]() If in early post medieval Europe, a certain thing or object was common enough to become "popularized" in manuscripts, for how many years had these objects in question been circulating? The point is... |
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
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Replies: 15
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![]() Huh? I have no idea what you are talking about. Are you referring to the sword I posted? What I wrote on this thread is about an issue that I have been thinking about for ages. That of the... |
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
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![]() I think that you are reading too much into what I am saying. To strip the argument to it's bare bones, when we say that a piece is "good", ie authentic, based on hard evidence, we are probably... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Just thought of this one. I bought an almost precise replica of the Loshult Gun some years ago. The guy who made it did work for the US National Park Service (a really estimable organization) and... |
Forum: European Armoury
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![]() Some measurements Weight: 2lbs 7oz Length o/a: 3ft 4in Width of cross: 8in I hadn't looked closely at this sword in some time. It is remarkable how well it sits in the hand. Sort of how a Luger... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 7,072
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![]() This one. About which YOU said :D You know, I have read that Burton, in claiming that captured Crusader sword blades were still being used in the mid-east, mistook the sort of blade on this... |
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,393
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![]() This thought has been with me for some time and I think that I actually posted something along these lines ages ago but I thought that it would be worthwhile to revisit the idea. I will speak for... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Views: 7,072
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![]() It was not unusual for blades to be hilted or rehilted in countries far from their manufacture. I sold a two handed court sword whose blade was German and whose hilt was Italian but whose wrapping... |
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