Rapier Hanger/Frog Research

Sigeric · Post by **Sigeric** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:35 pm

Greetings All,

I recently made a Rapier Hanger for a prize at our last SCA event. Even though I can make a modern day hanger, I would realy like to find a few example of authentic hangers. Ultimately, I would like to try and find documentation and reproduce one or two of them for an SCA A&S competition. Actualy I don't really care about the competition, but I would like to find out more about these hangers.

I've spent a little bit of time searching the web and I only seem to get modern reproductions. Have any of you stumbled a crossed any manuscripts or musuem examples?

Thanks in advance,
Sigeric

David · Post by **David** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:00 pm

One of our local fencers put together a nice page about a hanger he put together with pix of the original.

http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~beans/swordhanger.html

Guy Dawkins · Post by **Guy Dawkins** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:00 pm

David wrote:One of our local fencers put together a nice page about a hanger he put together with pix of the original.

http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/~beans/swordhanger.html

OH MY GOD! :shock:

Sigeric · Post by **Sigeric** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:54 am

Unbelievable work... they put a heck of a lot more time into the repoduction than they did for the original. The thing I like best is all the pieces that were cut out, showing the velveteen.

T. Finkas · Post by **T. Finkas** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:49 am

Superb in every way!

kass · Post by **kass** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 12:17 pm

David, thank you for posting this! My edge-of-the-16th-century husband has been looking for a period hanger for his sword. Wait until I show him this!

Kass

Hob · Post by **Hob** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:05 pm

There's a period one all layed out in "Arms and Armor of the English Civil War" from the Royal Armory series.