Group class vs. individual lesson?
The armed and police forces of the world had their choices made for them by virtue of the very number of recruits needing instruction.
But how did they get them to look good from a distance…
He managed to escape being turned into shell casings in World War I. Melted down for war reparations during the Weimar Republic. He dodged the Nazi leveling of Breslau in 1945, and the Red Army’s knocking over what was left.
And since he ended up behind the Iron Curtain, in a different country, he even escaped the politically correct B.S. that imprints modern Germany…
Posted in 20th Century, Epee, Foil
Tagged breslau fechterbrunnen, fencing sculpture, hugo leder, ledere fechter, lederer fencer
The purpose of this site is not just to make you spend hours on end surfing and downloading free pics we paid an arm and a leg for to acquire.
Our mission is to discover to you the true Secrets of the Sword.
Revealed today: How did cavalry troopers make sure their blades had a perfect edge? Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, 20th Century, Saber
Tagged amberger collection, british hussar swords, cavalry sword, cavalry swords, sharpening swords
If your idea of fun is spending a morning rifling through 1,000 tables full of antique weapons, we have just the thing for you.
Like every year since 1955, the Maryland Arms and Armor Collectors Association is putting on its sale and trading show on March 17-18, 2012 in Timonium, just north of the Baltimore Belway.
We hope to see you there! Continue reading
Who’d possibly want a matched set of tin figures staging a Biedermeier-era Mensur?
Err… yes, who indeed. Possibly the same kind of person who has a sextett of Spelter and bronze fencing figurines staring at his desk?
This one we haven’t acquired—yet. But would accept it from our Leibbursch any time. Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, fencing, fencing art, Schläger
Tagged Biedermeier Mensur, pewter figurines, Prestel, tin figures, Zinnfiguren Mensur
There’s no accounting for taste.
Two weeks ago, we alerted you to the opportunity of buying a sword once owned by the late Saddam Hussein.
The prices achieved on this auction have just been posted… Continue reading
Posted in 20th Century, Armory, Swords in the News, Weapons
Tagged Amoskeag Auction, auction, saddam sword
Based on the historical record, a duel with sharp épées was an unpleasant affair. Chances were that three feet of needle-pointed steel might transport you from the terrain to the Happy Hunting Grounds with considerable pain and suffering.
So who’re you to judge the little “trucs” that might get you a breather during your affair of honor… Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, 20th Century, Epee, fencing, Images, Weapons
Tagged degen, duel français, duelldegen, Epee, epee duel, epee fencing, escrime, french epee, la vie au grand air, steampunk, tactics, trucs
A few weeks ago, we examined Eight Dueling Épées.
Today, we noticed a variant of one of the older specimens up for auction: A cousin of “The Transitional”… Continue reading
Who’d have thought that university archives would ever change their time-honored policy of keeping non-academic riffraff out of their collections—and even throwing their rara open to the Great Unwashed?
The Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where I spent many a semester doing things other than visiting libraries, has recently put a copy of Salvatore Fabris’ “Italiänische Fechtkunst” online… Continue reading