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Susan J.Boulton
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 Posted: Sat 23 Aug, 2003 5:58 am Post subject: Hangers and Rapiers at the Royal Armouries. |
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Just thought folks would like to see these shots I sneaked at the royal armouries last summer.
I see no demons. I see the angel. You are supposed to see angels, aren't you, at the end?
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Philip Lautin Jackson
Location: Norway Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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 .. very nice swords..  what I wouldn't give for a rapier like that..
Tiocfaidh ar la
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Geoff Freeman
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I love the one immediately to the right of the center in the second picture. That just calls out to me.
Geoffrey C. Freeman
Durendal Fencing Club
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Nathan Robinson
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Scott Bubar
Location: New England Joined: 21 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Sat 23 Aug, 2003 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Susan, you sneaky thing.
So, where are the hangers?
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Susan J.Boulton
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| Posted: Sat 23 Aug, 2003 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Scott Bubar wrote: | Susan, you sneaky thing.
So, where are the hangers? |
Bottom left of the second picture last two blades. Last Blade on the bottom right, below two English Basket hilts.
For some reason the curve does not show so much, though it is only slight.
There are better pictures of all the blades in my shots in Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars by David Blackmore published by the Royal Armouries.
Am always sneaky 
I see no demons. I see the angel. You are supposed to see angels, aren't you, at the end?
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Susan J.Boulton
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On second thoughts Scott, they could be "Pattern Swords" Which seem to be a cross between a hanger and a proto Mortuary sword.
I find the styles of all these three, Pattern, proto mortuary and hanger, least to me, do tend to blend into each other depending on the blades themselves as each seems to have been made/altered for the individual at some point.
I see no demons. I see the angel. You are supposed to see angels, aren't you, at the end?
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Scott Bubar
Location: New England Joined: 21 Aug 2003
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Thanks, Susan.
The little guy on the bottom right appeared "hangerish, though I can't see much of the blade. The two on the left appeared from what I can see to be full-scale swords. They also look a bit beyond "proto".
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Sean Flynt
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This is a standard topic