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Thomas McDonald
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 Posted: Sat 27 Dec, 2003 11:47 am Post subject: If you had to choose one century ...... |
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If you had to choose one century ......
.... as your favorite, for swords, which would it be ? And why ?
( Ya just gotta ask these pointless questions every once in awhile :-)
18th for me ......
No other comes close in the high art of basket-hilt making, perticularly Stirling & Glasgow !
Mac
John Allan Sr. (Stirling) inlaid hilt , Photo: Ron Luciano .
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Roger Hooper
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If I had to choose --- the 1400's. In my amateur opinion, the highest quality, sophistication, and variety, extending into the 16th century. And there were still some older swords being rehilted, still in use.
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Stephen A. Fisher
Location: Kentucky USA Joined: 17 Oct 2003
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18th.........
smallswords, hangers, hunting swords, basket-hilts, sabres, cutlasses.....Whats not to like.
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Nathan Robinson
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Geoff Wood
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21st. More choice than ever before. Probably proportionately cheaper than ever before. I'm probably from peasant stock (judging by surname) that wouldn't have been able to own one when they were 'for real'. I can enjoy them without needing to fear having to use them in earnest.
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J.G. Grubbs
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| Nathan Robinson wrote: | | I'll go for 1485-1585. Yep. |
That about does it for me too!
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Samurai Proverb
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Geoff Freeman
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Much as I like the 14th century arms and armor, I'd probably have to say that my favorite century would be the 17th. Rapiers, spadroons, pallasches, some smallswords, flintlock firearms....
Geoffrey C. Freeman
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Joe Fults
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| Geoff Wood wrote: | | 21st. More choice than ever before. Probably proportionately cheaper than ever before. I'm probably from peasant stock (judging by surname) that wouldn't have been able to own one when they were 'for real'. I can enjoy them without needing to fear having to use them in earnest. |
Good point and good answer. 
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Gabriel Stevens
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For me, regardless of how much I learn I keep going back to the 1300s and the Hundred years war. I just really love the look and feel to the arms and armor. It all seems so practicle and straight forward (Such and the sword attributed to the Black Prince, that's all business there).
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Bill Duncan
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Have to say that the 15th century has my main interest and money 
XVIII and XVIIIb are my favorite type blades and the mass wepons of that time are grand as well, the armor as well was at it's apex .
Bill Duncan
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David Wilson
Location: In a van down by the river Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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Hard to say, for me. I would pick the 18th century for the same reasons Mac has -- the Basket Hilts of Stirling and Glasgow.
Then again.... maybe 5th or 6th century, the advent of the Migration-era, with it's beautifully made, wide pattern-welded blades with wide (or sometimes multi) fullers, and the waning days of the Roman sword, the Spatha.
Or the 10th or 11th century, the later Viking era (and still the fine, wide-bladed pattern-welded swords), giving way to the early middle ages, with types X, Xa, Xi, and XII...
Or maybe 1st century BC... with the leafy-bladed Mainz and Hispaniensis swords of the Romans, the Celtic longswords, the Iberian Falcata, and more....
This was harder than I thought it would be.....
David K. Wilson, Jr.
Laird of Glencoe
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Andrew Winston
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I'm a big fan of 19th century Mainland Southeast Asian weapons.
"I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish.
And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing."
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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Alex McCracken
Location: Columbus, Ohio Joined: 03 Sep 2003
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I agree with Mac and Dave:
18th century Highland baskethilts first and foremost. Followed
by:
Viking
Early and later Roman/Byzantine
Migration
Alex
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Felix Wang
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My choice follows Roger Hooper - the 15th century. With the sheer variety of weapon types in use, it was an extraordinarily complex and interesting period.
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Björn Hellqvist
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Decisions, decisions... If I really must settle for a period, it would be the 15th century, but in reality, I like the swords from the 1200's to the 1500's (and a few outside of that, too).
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Eugene George
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| Posted: Tue 30 Dec, 2003 11:43 pm Post subject: Hmmm... |
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I'm too eclectic to pick. But I lean towards the 17th and 18th. Cutlasses, Schiavona, and Basket Hilts...
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Thomas McDonald
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| Posted: Wed 31 Dec, 2003 9:18 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for your input , guys .....
Remember though .....
You have to pick just "one" century as your favorite , no splashing over between 2 *g*
Just a tough, hardcore, choice of your # 1
You can list your runnersup, tough !
Happy New Year 2004 , all ! Mac
'Gott Bewahr Die Oprechte Schotten'
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Stephen A. Fisher
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| Posted: Wed 31 Dec, 2003 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| Thomas McDonald wrote: | | You can list your runnersup, tough ! |
My runner-up would be the 17th century for it's fine English rapiers & basket-hilts & German pappenheimers.
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Chuck Perino
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I'll take the 1st Century AD.
For the sheer reason that I like Gladii, Vino Rosso, and my legs look damn good in a tunica! 
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Eugene George
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| Posted: Wed 31 Dec, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject: Fine Mac... |
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| Thomas McDonald wrote: | Thanks for your input , guys .....
Remember though .....
You have to pick just "one" century as your favorite , no splashing over between 2 *g*
Just a tough, hardcore, choice of your # 1 |
Fine then: 1650ad to 1750ad. You get your guns, swords, lances and pikes all in one package. Runners up 16th century.
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