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Dansknecht

Bump. Happy to take offers of 16th-17th century stuff in trade for my new bastard sword.

Dansknecht

Hi,

WTT or sell new Kingston Arms/Paul Chen bastard sword with blackened finish.

Interested in fencing/sparring/practice rapiers of sideswords, or late 16th-early 17th century stuff for trading.

Thanks!

Dansknecht

Price drop to $350 with shipping for the dagger. Need to sell

Thanks

Dansknecht

Sold the rapier.

Dagger still available at reduced price @$375 including shipping and custom work.

Need to sell

Dansknecht

Price drop on rapier to $850.00

Dansknecht

For Sale: Italian Rapier made by Arms & Armor of Minnesota, copied from an original from 1580-85. Worn twice, used once for fencing. Tip is squared off. Price INCLUDES shipping in the continental USA and soft leather sheath. Sells new for $1220 (which includes neither sheath nor shipping). Asking $9...

Dansknecht

The 1347 translation is fascinating, but it doesn't really suggest it was a typical practice. Stuff on belts seems to be *extremely* rooted in particular contexts in the 16th century and beyond. As above, knives largely on people like oyster sellers in the Cries of the City of London from around 160...

Dansknecht

How usually is usually? There are certainly images of things on belts, but they seem to be vastly outnumbered by barren belts, especially as you move through the 16th century. Even purses become a rarity; knives mostly on those associated with sea - not including soldiers with weapons. I realize thi...

Dansknecht

I don't think there's anything really to connect curved-bladed swords to maritime use in the period FWIW.

Dansknecht

John Foxe's Actes and Monuments AKA Book of Martyrs is littered with midcentury-era images of Englishmen with what appear to be precisely what you're looking for.

Dansknecht

Maybe, maybe not. There was an attempt to build a castle by the same folks as Guédelon in the Ozarks and it was a bust.

Dansknecht

Final price drop to $75 shipped in the continental USA. Thanks!

Dansknecht

Price drop to $160 shipped, or trades.

Dansknecht

Price drop to $200.00 shipped but ***very*** interested in trades

Dansknecht

Dagger with sharp edge. Handsewn leather grip over wood and a double layer leather sheath with tooling. The spine of the blade has some beautiful geometric filework. Some minor wear and tear. but overall in very nice condition. Asking $220 including shipping in the USA, but also very interested in t...

Dansknecht

Based on several surviving examples, this one has a custom hilt by de Messenmaker married to a Windlass blade and includes a leather-covered scabbard with risers and a chape with period-appropriate finial. PayPal is preferred. Asking $350.00 + shipping. Potentially interested in late 16th-mid 17th c...

Dansknecht

So what did they actually say to you? It feels a little bit like what you've put in quotes is not what was actually communicated.

Dansknecht

To be entirely pedantic, there's no evidence they were referred to as apostles in the period. There's one anecdote from the 1670s which jokingly calls the bottles apostles when they're specifically worn by one drunk friar who got a hold of a gun. That said, look up Zeke's Woodworking or Blood and Sa...

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For what it's worth- if you do go with hemp or linen, very generally speaking, colored hemp/linen tend to be pretty unusual for outerwear (lots of evidence for colored linen linings and interlinings in clothes) in what the SCA would consider "late period." I don't know if that's true for earlier stu...

Dansknecht

Hi there! I'm possibly quite interested in participating if you'd be interested in some other 16th-early 17th century stuff, either with tailoring demos as http://oldenglandgrownnew.weebly.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/oldenglandgrownnew/ , or representing early colonial expeditions or domestic li...

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If you follow his Facebook page, he posts stock items there for sale several times weekly.

Dansknecht

Yes, threaded.

Dansknecht

Great questions and good points. It's for a DIY project on a Windlass Steel Crafts blade. Proportionally, I'm looking for something in similar to this one- https://www.faganarms.com/collections/s ... ming-sword

Dansknecht

Hello! Looking for a spherical pommel suitable for a one-handed sword. It doesn't have to be in pristine condition, used may be fine.

Thanks!

Dansknecht

By phone or email?

Dansknecht

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone had e-mail contacts for the Arms & Armor department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; For the life of me I can't seem to find them. Please PM me if you have them.

Many thanks!

Dansknecht

Mathew Gnagy participated in the project to recreate the felt buffcoat thing; he drafted the skirts for it. His exploration into felt is traveling cloaks. Buff or leather jerkins seem to be the transition point between the arming doublet of the pre-late 16th century and the buffcoats of the 17th cen...

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I don't think I ever posted photos of the project. You can find a few of the piece in-progress here, as well as some of Mark wearing it. I'd put it at about 1/2" thick, but it was quite flexible and comfortable. It did stop a knife thrust pretty well, but this is the first experiment in what we hope...

Dansknecht

Do tell!

Dansknecht

Textile alone as standalone defensive garments besides some of the quilted armors being worn/used in the New World?

Dansknecht

It's a good look, though nothing particular military-ish about it. If you can get a hold of a copy of Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 1560-1620, it includes the pattern for that particular jerkin as well as some extra info.

Dansknecht

A few thoughts if they're of interest to you... First, that statue has quite a few anachronisms and I would not trust it as a primary source, having likely been made some time in the last century. That aside, what the statue is depicting is almost certainly a jack of plate or coat of plate, which is...

Dansknecht

Hi everyone, Please keep your eyes out for three breast & backplates (one with tassets), one helmet, and one gorget stolen from Plimoth in Plymouth, MA this week. All the pieces are blackened and may have an accession number engraved into the inside bottom of the backplates. Please SHARE. Thank you!...

Dansknecht

You may find my post here useful. I'd be careful, in general, with Osprey illustrations, but the ones in the book you've scanned from are generally quite good. The one you're after is mostly modeled on a man on the frontispiece of the English Edition of the Mariner's Mirrour, which was in turn copie...

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Hello folks! There are indeed /some/ surviving buff coats which are of wool and not leather. What we did this past weekend was hypothetical, but we can't say we did it precisely as it would have been done, or with precisely the same sort of stuff. Here's what our Foreman and the Tailor at Williamsbu...

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