Posts: 6 Location: Fort Campbell, KY U.S.A.
Mon 30 Dec, 2019 8:07 pm
My Last Sword
My "last sword" of 2019 was actually a whole collection of SEVENTY swords and sort of became my "Christmas present to myself". On 20 December I went to the Nashville Flea Market, (which I try to visit every month), and it was pretty unremarkable without anything of great interest. Then, in the last building at one of the last booths before the exit was a massive collection of about 70 replica (and a few original) swords ranging from ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese ones up to a few up through the 19th century, but predominately from the Medieval period. I have always loved historical swords, and already have a sizable collection, and there were so many good ones, and at such great prices that I was really torn on which ones I wanted to buy since I didn't bring a lot of money - never expecting to run into something like this. The dealer had bought these at an estate sale and only took them because they were part of a larger lot with watches and knives which were what he normally dealt in. He said this was the first time he brought the swords to a flea market, and with many of them razor sharp, he didn't want to mess with them, and seeing how excited I was about them, he offered them ALL to me for $2500. -- which amounted to about $37.00 each which was a bargain I couldn't refuse! I told him I didn't have near enough money with me to buy them all, so he said he would hold them until I went to the bank to get the rest. needless to say, I made it to the bank and back and was able to buy them. There were a few I already had, and there were others that really don't fit into my collection that I will probably sell or trade, but all in all it is a really great collection and I will be able to expand my displays and programs with many of them. Ironically, there were even a few that I actually had designed for the Deepeeka company in India, where I went for many years when I lived in Germany, to help them develop their swords and armor! There are eight Albions, one Arms and Armor hand and a half, about a dozen Del Tins, quite a few Windlass, some of their best, I think, a few Hanwei, Deepeeka, some cheaper ones I can/t identify and a few original pieces but none that seemed particularly rare.I've attached an images of nearly all of them below.
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