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Forum: European Armoury 24th May 2025, 12:51 PM
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Posted By urbanspaceman
Groovey

We are blessed with a university that has an engineering department that was started and funded by Lord Armstrong (of Vickers Armstrong fame) and, believe it or not, they have there a professor of...
Forum: European Armoury 23rd May 2025, 06:15 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,375
Posted By urbanspaceman
translation

Hi Jim. Here is a Google translation of the text in those pages; unfortunately not in order but easily discerned. I can send you them by email if you wish.

245201

245202

245203

245204
Forum: European Armoury 23rd May 2025, 12:37 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,375
Posted By urbanspaceman
grooves

Thank-you for the info; I know nothing about military history in any of its manifestations.
I do know that if, while possibly engaged, I was choosing between a typical smallsword - be it...
Forum: European Armoury 22nd May 2025, 08:40 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,375
Posted By urbanspaceman
1767 etc

Hello again. I was thinking the same thing. I bought it purely on the basis of "like the look of that" and it was some time later that I saw a sword that looked remarkably similar and was titled 1767...
Forum: European Armoury 19th May 2025, 08:44 PM
Replies: 18
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Posted By urbanspaceman
Mysterius colichemarde hilt.

Thank-you for your help with this issue, it is much appreciated.
There seems to have been a rather wide variety of hilt styles with this pattern: mine (shown earlier) is different again with the...
Forum: European Armoury 17th May 2025, 08:25 PM
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Posted By urbanspaceman
Grooves

This is a machine rolled fuller.
245065
Actually, the word fuller was originally the name of the tool used to hammer in the hollow. Anyway, a steel roller under huge pressure bore down on hot...
Forum: European Armoury 17th May 2025, 10:43 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,375
Posted By urbanspaceman
I'm confused

Forgive me if I am mistaken, but is this not the French infantry officer's sword Regulation 25th April 1767:
245055
ps
A superb sword
Forum: European Armoury 17th May 2025, 10:22 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,375
Posted By urbanspaceman
groove or hollow

Thank-you for that. Could you determine if the lower face is a hollow of gradually decreasing radius or a constant width groove please. I can't make it out from the photo.
ps
do you know where it...
Forum: European Armoury 16th May 2025, 08:37 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 13,375
Posted By urbanspaceman
French colichemarde

Here we are with yet another question regarding colichemardes:
is anyone aware of a French hilted hollow-ground colichemarde smallsword.
Easy question.
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