Hloh 9 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 (edited) Hey! Last week Richard Van Dijk visited Czech Republic, we had chance to see some beautiful blades at museums. I took a picture of some. First part are some excavations from Čáslav, wooden sword was founded under 13th century house doorstep. Edited June 9, 2014 by Hloh Link to post Share on other sites
Hloh 9 Posted June 9, 2014 Author Share Posted June 9, 2014 Second was Imperial armory (about 550 pieces of guns, canons, swords, armours,...) Link to post Share on other sites
Hloh 9 Posted June 9, 2014 Author Share Posted June 9, 2014 And third, that I enjoy most, was exhibition about baroque applied arts there are great eating sets: Link to post Share on other sites
Hloh 9 Posted June 9, 2014 Author Share Posted June 9, 2014 More eating sets: 1 Link to post Share on other sites
peter johnsson 147 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Thank you for posting these beautiful blades. Many interesting pieces among these! Link to post Share on other sites
Arcus J 0 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Wow that's some amazing stuff Thank you for sharing Hloh! Link to post Share on other sites
Franck Meurou 0 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Really great!!! Thanks a lot... Link to post Share on other sites
Geoff Keyes 465 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I love the eating sets, gives me all kinds of ideas. Thanks for posting. Geoff Link to post Share on other sites
Collin Miller 136 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites
Matthew Parkinson 168 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 thank you for posting these! I really like the eating knifes such great filework! Link to post Share on other sites
Hloh 9 Posted September 8, 2014 Author Share Posted September 8, 2014 Hey! I meet some new beauties: My favourite one- spring still works! Link to post Share on other sites
J.Arthur Loose 85 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Nice two handed swords... and I love the musket glaive! Link to post Share on other sites
Alan Longmire 2,474 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 How did I miss this thread? Thank you, Hloh, these are seriously cool photos! And yes, that wheel-lock glaive is nifty. Link to post Share on other sites
Christopher Price 22 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 What Alan said... tremendous documentation. I love the eating sets, particularly. Thank you for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites
Hloh 9 Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 Hey! I have something new: bauernwehr and iron age knife.. Link to post Share on other sites
Josh Burrell 5 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Tremendous. thanks mate! Link to post Share on other sites
Sam Salvati 75 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Oh man, Hloh thank you so much for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites
Mordechaj 0 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Hi Hloh, nice pictures. One century ago we would have been in a same country! (Austro-hungary...) That's probably why when I saw your second post in this topic I was 100% sure that they were taken in Graz, Austria. They have a huge arms and armour museum there, same style. Not just general style, I thought I recognized some individual pieces! http://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/styrian-armoury Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Stephens 409 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Wow! What cool museum documentation! I'm all jazzed to build an eating set now. Well, now that I think about it, I probably shouldn't. If I did I'm sure to embarrass my wife and daughter by bringing it to a nice dinner just to show it off. Grins, Dave Link to post Share on other sites
Hloh 9 Posted August 13, 2015 Author Share Posted August 13, 2015 Bronze knife: Link to post Share on other sites
Hloh 9 Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 18-19th century folder (with nut cracker and crowbar): Link to post Share on other sites
Brian Dougherty 1,007 Posted September 21, 2015 Share Posted September 21, 2015 That is really cool Hloh. I wish Victorinox would put in a pry bar like that. It would have saved me a lot if blade tips over the years. Link to post Share on other sites
Hloh 9 Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 Hey! I have something new, pictures are from top oldest to youngest. Most knives are form 14-15th century as well as sheats. Last thing is 18th century alarm clock. Link to post Share on other sites
Jeroen Zuiderwijk 227 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) Ohhh, that is incredibly similar to a sword in the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands. Briefly I thought it was the one. I know these swords have often a lot of similarity in design and decoration. But it doesn't happen often that they are that identical. Same maker perhaps? Edit: after posting I do notice the difference in number of "rings" in the grip, 3 vs 4. That's quite odd, as that means both swords seem to have been held differently, one with 4 fingers on the grip, and the first with three on the grip, one on the shoulders or with one on the Edited July 29, 2016 by Jeroen Zuiderwijk Link to post Share on other sites
peter johnsson 147 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 About number of rings on the grip: I do not think this is an indication of number of fingers grasping the grip. It may be, but you find more or less rings than is needed to separate the fingers not only on bronze age swords, but also in later periods. The rings do add "gription" and friction to increase tactile feedback, but not always by "locking" the fingers of the hand down in grooves. The two swords are really very similar to each other in both form and decoration and style of making. One of those cases where you wonder if they come from the sam workshop. Link to post Share on other sites
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