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Originally Posted by M ELEY
...might have sat in a place of honor on some Englishman's mantle.  |
...or a place of honour in a Pub! we had a pub not too far away where the publican was a veteran, he had the wall behind the bar decorated with his sword and a couple of khukuris and a few other sharp pointy things he'd picked up here and there...
that cutlass would have looked mighty fine amidst the paintings of british warships and other nautical memorabilia decorating the 'Jolly Tar', another pub in a nearby village, sadly no sharp pointy things in that pub.
...and finally, just a slight trip aside into how the cutlass was normally stored aboard ship. (HMS Warrior - 1860)
cutlass racks in the more senior areas.
overhead racks in the crews quarters above the muzzle loading cannon.
cutlass racks in context: Gun Deck.
note racks overhead upper right in photo
boarding pike racks, just for the heck of it.
pike, use of:
and for the officers: (you can just make out the cutlass racks on the right background)
a few zillion dollars worth of navy colts.