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Aleksei Sosnovski
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 Posted: Fri 31 Jul, 2009 1:25 am Post subject: Arms and armor with signs of use/battle damage |
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I create this topic to gather information about arms and armor with signs of use, wear, and battle damage. Things that are expected to be posted here:
1) photos
2) historical art
3) descriptions (extracts from books, historical literature, etc.)
4) Results of modern experiments
5) Links to other resources that contain related information
In other words, all pictorial and verbal materials closely related to the subject.
I humbly ask everyone to refrain from asking questions or expressing personal opinion in this thread as I would like this thread to be a kind of database.
Thanks in advance to everyone who adds information to this thread.
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David E. Farrell
Location: Evanston, IL Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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There are gobs of examples, but I only have pics of a couple.
Churburg S-18 Gauntlets (these definitely have seen better days)
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For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother
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Cesare Paganini
Location: iTALY Joined: 19 Jul 2009
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Hi.
My first contribute:
A Savoiard helmer - beginning of 1600 - pireced by a "quadrellone da breccia" . The warrior wearing the halmet, was pierced too.
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M. Eversberg II
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| Cesare Paganini wrote: | Hi.
My first contribute:
A Savoiard helmer - beginning of 1600 - pireced by a "quadrellone da breccia" . The warrior wearing the halmet, was pierced too.
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This is the only thing I found for "quadrellone da breccia" that had a perfect match. Couldn't have been that if it pierced him and managed to come out the other side, judging from the way the steel flares out around the hole.
What kind of weapon is the quadrellone da breccia?
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Vincent Le Chevalier
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| M. Eversberg II wrote: | | What kind of weapon is the quadrellone da breccia? |
It's the Italian name of the Ahlspiess, as written here. I think your image was wrongly associated to the words by the search engine as it is on another page that contains the terms. I guess the name comes from the square section of the long pike on this weapon.
More pictures in this thread.
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Cesare Paganini
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| M. Eversberg II wrote: | | Cesare Paganini wrote: | Hi.
My first contribute:
A Savoiard helmer - beginning of 1600 - pireced by a "quadrellone da breccia" . The warrior wearing the halmet, was pierced too.
Cesare from Italy |
This is the only thing I found for "quadrellone da breccia" that had a perfect match. Couldn't have been that if it pierced him and managed to come out the other side, judging from the way the steel flares out around the hole.
What kind of weapon is the quadrellone da breccia?
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The "quadrellone da breccia" is an infantery pole veapon, very simple,.Its blade has a square section
Sorry. My english is very bad and I don' know the English name of "quadrellone".
For a better description, I attach some pictures of a sixteenth century quadrellone, from "my" museum, near Verona (Italy)
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Cesare Paganini
Location: iTALY Joined: 19 Jul 2009
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[It's the Italian name of Ahlspiess
Thanks. Ahlspiess may be the weapon who caused the elmet pearce .
But the Ahlspiess is quite different by quadrellone.
Here is some pictures of an ahlspiess remains, present in medieval weapons collection of "my" museum.
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Maurizio D'Angelo
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"Quadrellone" as Caesar said it was a square blade,
to push one's way through the crowd.
Breccia = to find the way, breach, corridor in to enemy
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Vincent Le Chevalier
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Well, the everlasting wonders of pole weapons terminology Whatever the exact name is I think the shape of the business end is pretty clear now 
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Kirk Lee Spencer
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| Posted: Fri 07 Aug, 2009 10:21 am Post subject: Re: Arms and armor with signs of use/battle damage |
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| Aleksei Sosnovski wrote: | I create this topic to gather information about arms and armor with signs of use, wear, and battle damage. Things that are expected to be posted here:
1) photos
2) historical art
3) descriptions (extracts from books, historical literature, etc.)
4) Results of modern experiments
5) Links to other resources that contain related information
In other words, all pictorial and verbal materials closely related to the subject.
I humbly ask everyone to refrain from asking questions or expressing personal opinion in this thread as I would like this thread to be a kind of database.
Thanks in advance to everyone who adds information to this thread. |
Here are a couple of pictures...
ks
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Palace Armouries in Valetta. 1650
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May not be battle damage but part of the ritual "killing" of the sword.
Two swords
Lit in Eden’s flame
One of iron and one of ink
To place within a bloody hand
One of God or one of man
Our souls to one of
Two eternities
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Lafayette C Curtis
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Bruno Giordan
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Courtesy of Cesare Paganini as well, with whom I spent a very interesting afternoon.
Consolidation work of this skullcap was made by Cesare, there is not enough metal under the concretion layer to justify a removal, the artifact would likely crumble, so it must remain in this state.
http://bghomofaber.googlepages.com/catepiscina058.jpg
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Tony Brass
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On a related issue,
How much damage could a sword sustain before it would be deemed useless, or at least no longer a vialble battle weapon. How many dents, chips, etc... could a sword blade sustain before it had to be replaced?
I have heard a sword blade is permanently weakened when it is struck blade to blade, and it nicks; that microscopic hairline fractures branch off from the nick/dent and weaken the blade.
I have a "beater" sword from windlass that has absorbed lots of nicks and dents, purposefully. But it would absolutley be useful in a fight, and still seems stout.
Thoughts???
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This is a standard topic