Thank you Lee, and welcome everybody!

[Jens Nordlunde]

Congratulations Jim,
I tried earlier, but the forum was not opened yet. I am sure you will do very well moderating this forum.
Jens

[fernando]

CONGRATULATIONS, JIM

Fernando

[Jim McDougall]

Thanks very much Henk, Jens and Fernando!
You guys are great!!
I'm really looking forward to working at this with Ed and Lee and finally having a forum where we can really learn more on these important weapons.
All the best,
Jim

[Marc]

Congratulations, Jim. I'm sure you'll drive this forum with wise and steady hand

[fernando]

Allow me to have the honour of being be the first member to post a piece in this Forum ... just for memory sake.
Not a pretentious specimen, rather an action piece; a Portuguese infantry officer sabre, from the period of Dona Maria II, circa 1843, based on the 1822 Britsh pattern.
Its robust blade is 78 cms. long, 7,5 m/m thick and 32 m/m wide at the forte.
The guard is embelished with the Portuguese royal crest.
This will be a deja vue for Jim, as he knows the majority of my non ethno pieces, wich eventually i showed him some time ago by direct email.
I hope the other members will find some little interest, though.
Fernando

[fernando]

So i did it all wrong
Besides not having been the first one to post a piece, i should have opened a new thread with my theme, instead of opening a reply here.
Do you think it is possible to move it to a new thread ?
... Or should i just forget it ?
Fernando

[katana]

Bravo Jim and Lee ,
I have often argued that European weapons should be represented in an Ethnographic weapons forum. Afterall some ethno weapons have trade blades, a number of weapon designs were heavily influenced by 'invading' (trading ?) colonialists (and vis versa) ...and of course it gives some sort of context to the weapons tribesmen faced when Europeans suddenly 'turned up' on their doorstep.

Regards David

PS Very nice sword Fernando

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by fernando

Allow me to have the honour of being be the first member to post a piece in this Forum ... just for memory sake.
Not a pretentious specimen, rather an action piece; a Portuguese infantry officer sabre, from the period of Dona Maria II, circa 1843, based on the 1822 Britsh pattern.
Its robust blade is 78 cms. long, 7,5 m/m thick and 32 m/m wide at the forte.
The guard is embelished with the Portuguese royal crest.
This will be a deja vue for Jim, as he knows the majority of my non ethno pieces, wich eventually i showed him some time ago by direct email.
I hope the other members will find some little interest, though.
Fernando

Absolutely beautiful piece Fernando! Can you repost on a new thread? This is worthy of its own discussion absolutely as it represented a pattern form that became internationally used.

Thanks very much,
Jim

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Marc

Congratulations, Jim. I'm sure you'll drive this forum with wise and steady hand

Thank you so much Marc! I'm really looking forward to your input and have always looked forward to your posts which display outstanding knowledge on Spanish swords, especially those which diffused into the vast colonial empires of Spain and Portugal.

All the best,
Jim