In my gallery -

Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK:
http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/gallery2/main.p...emId=12928

Museum of London, UK:
http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/gallery2/main.p...emId=12181

Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France:
http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/gallery2/main.p...emId=11707

Enjoy!

Matt

Thanks, Matt! Great stuff there, and I was especially happy to see the French collection.

Hi Matt, I was just at the Royal Armouries today, brilliant place. :cool: Living in Bolton I'm only about an hour or so away (depending on the traffic on the M62 which, by the way, was bad today :wtf: ). Had to persuade myself not to buy the Del Tin 2140 in the gift shop though and continue saving for an Albion Yeoman! ;). I found the pictures from the London Museum very interesting especially the sword with its scabbard, only ever seen one black and white photo of it. I beleive it was dredged out of the Thames?

Excellent photos Matt.

I especially appreciate the details of how the various daggers are hilted. I never seem to be able to get enough good reference images for this.

Nick.

Matt-

Thanks you very much for posting! This is great stuff. It's always nice for us in places far away to see photos like these that show objects and give views not in books. I have one real question. Do you have any more information regarding the Viking sword from Leeds that appears to have a single edge? i believe it is photo #78 in the Royal Armouries album. It's very unusual......

-Tim

Okay. I'm baffeled. What on earth is this:

http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/gallery2/main.p...emId=12405

That looks a lot more to be from an alien movie, than to be from the middleages. The handle looks most uncomfortable. No, wait, has there been a wooden handle and only those HUGE tubelike rivets are left of it?

BTW, great pics! [ Linked Image ]

Ahhhh.... photos of the seaxes from the Museum of London, excellent! I've been wanting to get my hands on some photos of these for a long time. And a very nice langsax in the Royal Armouries to b.t.w.! Thanks! :)

By the way, I also have shed loads of photos from Vienna and Graz that I will put online at some point.

Matt

Thanks Jeroen! I appreciate the info. (again!) I've been considering a custom seax for a while, but may want to get one a little longer now......Thanks again to Matt for these awesome photos.

Matt, if you have a chance to hit the British Museum again, could you get a few different angles (particularly a side view of the pommel) of the river Witham sword referenced in this thread: http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t...tham+sword
I'm considering getting a custom commission of it, but unfortunately my pics I took when I was there didn't turn out,
thanks so much if you get a chance,
Dan

Many thanks for the photos, Matt. The shots of the interiors of the helms shown on the effigies at Dijon were fabulous. Hopefully you'll post your Vienna pictures soon; it's not possible to see too many photos from the Waffensammlung!