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Thomas McDonald
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 Posted: Sun 12 Oct, 2003 2:06 pm Post subject: Eric's baskethilt pic's from the Royal Armoury in Stockholm |
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Our good friend, and Albion Armorers own, Eric McHugh is currently on a research trip to Sweden , working along side the great swordsmith Peter Johnsson, and documenting as much infomation as he can !
Knowing 'ol Mac is forever the basket-hilt nut Eric was kind enough to send me the following pic's that he snapped at the Royal Armoury , Stockholm, and gave me permission to share them with everyone here !
Many thanks Eric , and keep up the great work ! Mac
The first piece is a 'Pinch of Snuff' variant ,with detatchable forward guards, and horseman's ring !
*Note the big chunk missing at the rear guard / side panel ..... Ouch !
 
This last pic was taken at the Skokloster Museum, and features the man himself !
'Gott Bewahr Die Oprechte Schotten'
XX ANDRIA XX FARARA XX
Mac's PictureTrail
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Patrick Kelly
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| Posted: Mon 13 Oct, 2003 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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Neat pics. Thanks to Eric for thinking of you Mac, and to you for posting them.
While in Chicago this weekend I saw an extremely nice baskethilt at the Chicago Art Institute that you would have loved. It was right next to a beautiful Schiavona that Nathan would have died for.
Unfortunately they were behind a very thick pane of glass 
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Thomas McDonald
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| Posted: Mon 13 Oct, 2003 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Patrick
Ah, you mean the Walter Allan "football" baskethilt .....
Alex McCracken took these pic's when he visited The Chicago Art Institute !
Awesome piece, so's the schiavona ! Mac
 
| Patrick Kelly wrote: | Neat pics. Thanks to Eric for thinking of you Mac, and to you for posting them.
While in Chicago this weekend I saw an extremely nice baskethilt at the Chicago Art Institute that you would have loved. It was right next to a beautiful Schiavona that Nathan would have died for.
Unfortunately they were behind a very thick pane of glass |
'Gott Bewahr Die Oprechte Schotten'
XX ANDRIA XX FARARA XX
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Patrick Kelly
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| Posted: Mon 13 Oct, 2003 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, those are the ones!
I really wanted to get my hands on both of those.
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