Forum: European Armoury
15th April 2024, 02:59 PM
|
|
Replies: 6
Views: 339
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
9th April 2024, 12:38 AM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 2,020
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
8th April 2024, 11:41 PM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 923
We have very few historic sources about blade...
We have very few historic sources about blade distribution in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
To understand blade design one must acknowledge the existence of different cultures in a melting...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
22nd March 2024, 08:48 PM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 1,637
To answer your other question if your Afghan...
To answer your other question if your Afghan scabbard is linked to those Polish-Hungarian ones (guess I forgot to), there are few possible solutions:
- Is the scabbard shown by you a common...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
21st March 2024, 12:10 PM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 1,637
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
12th March 2024, 07:25 PM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 1,861
Polish nobility wore a saber at the belt and...
Polish nobility wore a saber at the belt and often used a warhammer as a walking stick. Daggers (even more this decorated) were something a Polish nobleman would not wear, as it was considered...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
30th January 2024, 07:50 PM
|
|
Replies: 14
Views: 5,256
Without diving deep into literature studies you...
Without diving deep into literature studies you could try to answer the following question for yourself: This seems like a thrust-centric sword, is the blade suitable for thrusting through f.e. mail...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
17th January 2024, 03:45 PM
|
|
Replies: 101
Views: 84,980
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
16th January 2024, 04:58 PM
|
|
Replies: 101
Views: 84,980
Thanks a lot!
While I´m a big...
Thanks a lot!
While I´m a big enthusiast of bringing in HEMA experience into arms and armour studies, one must recognize that fighting on horseback and cavalry maneuvers in general have...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
14th January 2024, 05:06 PM
|
|
Replies: 22
Views: 9,337
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
14th January 2024, 03:09 PM
|
|
Replies: 22
Views: 9,337
Thanks for replying Victrix.
I...
Thanks for replying Victrix.
I wondered if that is the case - but I doubt it to be honest.
In fact the Prussians and French did not copy them in the beginning but "imported" Hungarian...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
14th January 2024, 03:00 PM
|
|
Replies: 22
Views: 9,337
Just one correction GP: Only few or one hussar...
Just one correction GP: Only few or one hussar unit had the skull ("black hussars") which meant they won´t grant mercy upon the enemy as far as I know. It was a more or less new thing dating back not...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
14th January 2024, 02:46 PM
|
|
Replies: 101
Views: 84,980
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
14th January 2024, 12:58 PM
|
|
Replies: 26
Views: 3,738
Found something interesting regarding rust on...
Found something interesting regarding rust on mail on a Wikipedia site in German.
"Rost ist für Kettenrüstungen kaum ein Problem, wenn sie regelmäßig getragen und sorgfältig gelagert werden. Nach...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
13th January 2024, 09:55 AM
|
|
Replies: 26
Views: 3,738
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
11th January 2024, 05:48 PM
|
|
Replies: 26
Views: 3,738
Hi Roger,
I wonder, why have mail shirts...
Hi Roger,
I wonder, why have mail shirts and its parts generally so little corrosion after all this time? I mean, even looked after medival swords often look like minefields. Is the steel harder...
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
16th December 2023, 01:26 PM
|
|
Replies: 22
Views: 9,337
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
11th December 2023, 09:57 PM
|
|
Replies: 1
Views: 1,884
|
|
Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
2nd December 2023, 08:44 PM
|
|
Replies: 22
Views: 9,337
The Spekulatius Cookie Hussar
The Spekulatius cookie has been an integral part of christmas pastries in central Europe since the middle ages. I recently acquired a beautiful mold for such cookies which appears to be very old...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
3rd November 2023, 07:59 PM
|
|
Replies: 16
Views: 6,453
In my opinion the correct description would be...
In my opinion the correct description would be "Central European Pallasch, 1st half of 17th century, probably Styrian-made".
Certainly not a Dussack, Dussege, Säbel auf teutsch gefasst or any of...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
25th August 2023, 09:09 PM
|
|
Replies: 9
Views: 5,924
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
19th August 2023, 05:24 PM
|
|
Replies: 9
Views: 5,924
Hey there!
The classification is simple. I...
Hey there!
The classification is simple. I did my best to sketch that with Microsofts Paint in a minute. 1 = Nadziak 2 = Obuszek 3= Czekan
I would like to add that Poland and Hungary are...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
12th August 2023, 03:13 PM
|
|
Replies: 150
Views: 81,181
Some more depictions I found recently.
1....
Some more depictions I found recently.
1. Hieronim Radziwill in his hussarish wedding dress, Poland-Lithuania - anno 1764
2. Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski, Poland-Lithuania - 2nd half of the...
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
21st June 2023, 05:52 PM
|
|
Replies: 150
Views: 81,181
|
|
Forum: European Armoury
11th June 2023, 07:34 PM
|
|
Replies: 42
Views: 68,793
Withdrawal of this guide
Dear readers of this guide,
it has been some time now since I wrote this little tour through the world of the karabela-hilted sabers. Like everyone else who dives deeper into his or her field of...
|
