Hello everybody, i am member of this forum for about 2-3 years, all this time i wasn't an active participator to the discussions on the forum, but i had the chance to gather a lot of weapons related information, and i am grateful to you all for it.
Having a ''debt to repay'' i have decided to visit the National Military Museum in Bucharest, were i have been the past years but not heaving a good camera i took no pictures, this time the ''tide has changed'' and i have spent 2-3 hours there at the museum, where i took about 500-600 pictures (the friend who loaned me the camera went mad after 2 hours so i had to move as fast as i could), but i managed to photograph almost all of the pieces that were on display.
You can find some of them here :
http://picasaweb.google.com/franga.dragos/MuzeulMilitarNational
Those are not all the pictures i took that day but next week i will upload the rest (man it will take forever :\ )
There is one last thing i wish to ask of you : please be patient with my lack of talent at tacking pictures, it was the second time i have ever used that camera.
Enjoy the pictures, for additional informations or pictures at a higher resolution I ''am all yours''.
Have a nice day.
Last edited by Franga Dragos on Fri 20 Jun, 2008 10:52 am; edited 1 time in total
Franga,
What a great resource! Many thanks for your work. The photographs look good to me - in focus and well-lit, which for those reasons alone is better than a lot of amateur museum display photos.
Cheers,
-GLL
What a great resource! Many thanks for your work. The photographs look good to me - in focus and well-lit, which for those reasons alone is better than a lot of amateur museum display photos.
Cheers,
-GLL
Thank you for the great photos, Franga! I hope you don't mind if I darken one of them to emphasize one weapon and ask you about it.
Do you know anything about the highlighted weapon below? I would guess late 15th century, but I'd love to know what the caption says.
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Do you know anything about the highlighted weapon below? I would guess late 15th century, but I'd love to know what the caption says.
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It is written : '' spear head and chain mail form the first half of the 15th century''
Franga Dragos wrote: |
It is written : '' spear head and chain mail form the first half of the 15th century'' |
Thanks! It looks to me like a small glaive with a concave back, somewhere between a vouge francais and couteau de breche, stylistically. Maybe 1450-1500. There's another one in this photo:
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Actually it is written : ''dacian battle knives (sica) I-II centuries'', but you were close Sean :p , just kidding :)
I thought the same thing about them before I red what was written about them.
I am amassed how you knew about the spear head that is from the 15th century :surprised: , :idea: you can read romanian right ? :D
I thought the same thing about them before I red what was written about them.
I am amassed how you knew about the spear head that is from the 15th century :surprised: , :idea: you can read romanian right ? :D
Franga Dragos wrote: |
Actually it is written : ''dacian battle knives (sica) I-II centuries'', but you were close Sean :p , just kidding :)
I thought the same thing about them before I red what was written about them. I am amassed how you knew about the spear head that is from the 15th century :surprised: , :idea: you can read romanian right ? :D |
That second photo shows a 1st or 2nd c. socketed knife? It looks exactly like a 15th c. glaive. It's a very simple construction, so I guess it's not too surprising that it would appear earlier either as a weapon or a tool.
As for the first photo--I can't read Romanian, unfortunately, but the form of the weapon looks right for late 15th c. (now I know there might be ancient examples, too! ) Also, the form of the mantle and spearhead displayed with it also look 15th c.
The sica style sword is typical of that period in time and place, in the next picture you can see a bigger version of that type of sword-a falx from the I-st century.
These pictures are just a small part of those i took the other day, there will be a lot of work to post the others but the good part is arriving.
These pictures are just a small part of those i took the other day, there will be a lot of work to post the others but the good part is arriving.
Yes, in the second picture those are ''battle knives'' socketed and tanged, I-II centuries.
Franga
Thank you for this excellent work. It is very very interesting and many questions come to mind. I look forward to the remaining pictures and many good discussions about them.
Best
Craig
Thank you for this excellent work. It is very very interesting and many questions come to mind. I look forward to the remaining pictures and many good discussions about them.
Best
Craig
Finally i have uploaded the rest of the pictures, hope you enjoy :)
http://picasaweb.google.ro/franga.dragos/Muze...arteaADoua
http://picasaweb.google.ro/franga.dragos/Muze...arteaADoua
Eureka! We've hit the motherlode! Thank you for taking the time to post these picture Franga! They are excellent!
I am glad you enjoy them, unfortunately the National Museum of History has been close for about 2-3 years for renovation i hope they reopen it soon because there are also many things to see there, if i recall the last time i was there it took me about 3 hours to visit it all (and i was really fast :D )
I am disappointed that i did not see any real armour pieces, except for the tanks in the courtyard :)
I am disappointed that i did not see any real armour pieces, except for the tanks in the courtyard :)
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