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B. Fulton
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Posted: Sat 22 Mar, 2008 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Already getting a pic or twelve of the Turkish tughs there, so i'll add "anything Turkish" under that category for Paris.
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Hisham Gaballa
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Posted: Sat 22 Mar, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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B. Fulton wrote: | Already getting a pic or twelve of the Turkish tughs there, so i'll add "anything Turkish" under that category for Paris. |
Thanks again.
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D. Austin
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Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: 20 Sep 2007
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Posted: Sat 22 Mar, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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B. Fulton wrote: | Will do. Do you have a pic of an eared dagger or an illustration? Can't think of what they look like.
I will be emailing some of the musuems for some of this stuff too. |
Here is a pic of an eared dagger.
It's a noble mission you're embarking on and a very generous offer you've made to the community here but make sure it's not at the expense of you enjoying your trip. I'd be tempted to set aside time to return to the museum you found most interesting after having visited all of those on your list. It sounds like an awful lot to cram in to a few weeks and I'd hate for you to come away from the trip with thousands of photos but regretting that you only spent half a day at so-and-so gallery and you were too busy taking pics to immerse yourself in the experience. That's just my approach though. I'm sure you'll love it.
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B. Fulton
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Posted: Sat 22 Mar, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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That's certainly an odd looking blade.
I don't mind, I'd be getting photos of nearly everything in the museums anyways, so getting specific shots of stuff is not a problem. I did this in Vienna in '06 at the Neuburg and got some specific shots of particular harnesses some people wanted, they just about had a collective Internet heart attack when I posted them all. Since over 2/3 of this trip is to see castles, armor, weaponry, garb, and assorted daily life stuff in museums, it made sense to take requests.
My reward is to see Normandy, which I've wanted to do for almost 30 years, just slightly behind wanting to visit Israel (went in '99).
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Chris Lampe
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Nathan Robinson
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Jack W. Englund
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Posted: Sun 23 Mar, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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I am doing a historical researc project There are 2 areas that you could help me with
Highland Scottish pistols (both Snaphance & Flintlock)
English & Scottish Daggers - Side views
( Ballocks, Dudgeons & Dirks)
If more convenient you can collect them & PM me & I will give a place to send them
Thank you Jack
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Jeroen Zuiderwijk
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Posted: Tue 25 Mar, 2008 10:52 am Post subject: |
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B. Fulton wrote: | We will be hitting the V&A for clothing and textiles primarily.
I was under the impression the Wallace collection was in Scotland...... apparently not. Might have to cram an extra museum in there. My wife planned the majority of the trip and hadn't heard of it, I knew of it, I just got the country wrong.
I'll be collating all these into one or two pages to bring with me. I have a good idea what a khopesh looks like but post a pic if you can just to make sure. | Here's one, probably one of the examples from the Louvre.
And the top one here, of which I'm looking for detailed pictures of the blade and hilt (including the connection of the blade into the hilt):
There's also a very unique khopesh that is straight for the most part, and curves near the tip, where the blade widens.
There's quite a few examples there, probably the largest collection in the world. I have a picture with drawings of them. but I can't get it online at the moment, but I'll give it a try. Something I'm also interested in, is which khopeshes are sharp, and which are never sharpened. The literature I have never seems to cover this, despite some photos I've seen clearly show that some khopeshes were never sharpened, and therefore probably not functional.
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G Ezell
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Posted: Tue 25 Mar, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Jeroen Zuiderwijk wrote: | Jeremy V. Krause wrote: | Otherwise I am interested in seaxes of all types | May I add a second vote for in that respect. |
I just wanted to add an additional vote for seaxes.
Wish I was going with you, have fun...
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Sean Flynt
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B. Fulton
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Posted: Wed 26 Mar, 2008 9:04 am Post subject: |
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Haven't found anything Viking yet really. Oddly, found a bunch of Japanese stuff at the V&A. Had to reshuffle the schedule some but i will do my best. On the Scottish front, found a Lochaber axe used in 1745 to whack a Brit officer, can't remember which one at the moment (which is why I shot the infocard). That was in the Tower of London.
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Jeroen Zuiderwijk
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B. Fulton
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Posted: Sat 29 Mar, 2008 9:43 am Post subject: |
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Fairly sure I got that langsax in my "any Sax anywhere" instructions, however it was not labeled, so I didn't get a ton of pics. The crappy lighting at Leeds and no-flash rule was a real pain. I'll put up what I have when I can, but I dont' think I got anything particularly great of it.
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B. Fulton
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Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 8:30 am Post subject: |
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Update:
Ballock, rondel, eared and cinquedea type daggers all over. Multiple angles on some but glass glare can be a problem.
Swords from nearly all eras from Roman to the 1600s.
Axes and polearms intermittently. Haven't found much Scottish stuff, found a bunch of wheellocks (the largest collection of them I've ever seen in Paris) and a few snaphaunces but all French construction, didn't shoot many of them (not enough memory).
Tons of armor. Tons of Turkish stuff (from Leeds and the Musee d' Armee). Mail, plate, horse stuff and everything else. I will let you all know more when I can. Tomorrow is the Louvre, will be looking for the khopeshes. I did get the Sultan's helmet and the horse and rider armor it was next to, and some turban helmets and daggers next to that.
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Hisham Gaballa
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Posted: Mon 07 Apr, 2008 12:55 am Post subject: |
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B. Fulton wrote: | Update:
Ballock, rondel, eared and cinquedea type daggers all over. Multiple angles on some but glass glare can be a problem.
Swords from nearly all eras from Roman to the 1600s.
Axes and polearms intermittently. Haven't found much Scottish stuff, found a bunch of wheellocks (the largest collection of them I've ever seen in Paris) and a few snaphaunces but all French construction, didn't shoot many of them (not enough memory).
Tons of armor. Tons of Turkish stuff (from Leeds and the Musee d' Armee). Mail, plate, horse stuff and everything else. I will let you all know more when I can. Tomorrow is the Louvre, will be looking for the khopeshes. I did get the Sultan's helmet and the horse and rider armor it was next to, and some turban helmets and daggers next to that. |
Cheers! Thanks for that.
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D. Austin
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Posted: Mon 07 Apr, 2008 3:09 am Post subject: |
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B. Fulton wrote: | Ballock, rondel, eared and cinquedea type daggers all over. |
He he he... Awesome.
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B. Fulton
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Posted: Mon 07 Apr, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: |
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Well.......all done on museums, did the Louvre today.
Khopeshes: We had to walk the ENTIRE Louvre but found them in the Levant, Mesopatamia area. Two. No hilts (blade and tang, that's it) so if they're not khopeshes, I don't know what they are, but they look like the pics you put up. One was the "wide at the end" one IIRC (have to double check) the other was a "usual" kind. Got about six-eight shots of each from all angles.
Daggers: If you're a daggerologist, I have: Ballocks (around eight of them) Eared (two only, I think was at the Cluny or Les Invalides) Cinquedeas (3-5) Rondels (half a dozenish).
Sword from the Louvre that in my incredibly bad French translation may have been Charlemagne's, in gold and jewels, half a dozen shots from both sides and all angles.
Bronze Age: If you're into the Bronze Age you'll pee yourself in excitement. Daggers, arrowheads, javelin and lanceheads, Axeheads (around a dozen, some of which may have been decorative). Swords, several conventional types and the khopeshes.
Viking blades in bad and good condition. Seaxes, scattered around from the Brit Museum and other places.
Mace heads: One or two may have been early Roman or at least Italian, plus various Gothic and medieval ones.
Arabic: Turkish/Ottoman/guys in robes yelling something in Arabic descent: Armor and a variety of weaponry, polearms, daggers, swords, etc.
Someone asked about exhibit XA.1 at the Tower of London, never did find it.
Tons of various pics from there, cannons, muskets, swords, bayonets, whatever.
Did not find the Brit Musuem double-fullered sword from the River Witham (At least to my knowledge, have to check the photos).
Sutton Hoo: Shot everything they had on display, helmet, sword, axe etc from multiple angles.
Someone asked about the display of swords at the de l' Armee with the broad bladed Type X. Found it (as far as I can tell) and got a bunch of pics, though "the spherical pommeled one" next to it was a bit vague, so I shot all of them. There were 3 falchions there (scattered around) and shot them all.
I'll be starting a seperate photobucket account just for all this so I can just post the link.
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Jeroen Zuiderwijk
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Posted: Mon 07 Apr, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Sweet! I'm very much looking forwards to them! Major cheers already for going through all the effort!
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Dan Dickinson
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Posted: Mon 07 Apr, 2008 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, can't wait to see them......you've been a great asset to the community!
Dan
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Sam Haverkamp
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Posted: Mon 07 Apr, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject: Negroli Cuirass Backplate |
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Greetings,
Did you have any luck finding the Negroli?
Thanks Much
Sam
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