Uhlan
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Post by Uhlan on Nov 23, 2018 12:57:10 GMT
Now WeaponEdge joins Empire Costume and nephews Universal on the blue and gild sabre front. To me their effort looks a bit like that infamous Franklin Mint sabre that had the blue and gild smartly done in plastic sticker format. But maybe it is the light that makes the blue much to even in tone and the gild CGI. I do not know. Somehow Universal's blue looks much richer to me. www.kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=WES1081&name=Napoleonic+French+General%27s+SaberCheers.
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Post by pgandy on Nov 23, 2018 17:54:56 GMT
I looked at it but there are others that I'd rather have. I appears to be a beautiful thing, the statistics somewhat lacking. The PoB at 8" is out there, but then this sword wasn't meant for backyard use. I just ordered a Princess of Wales that I can have more fun with. However with EN9 steel I strongly suspect backyard use will be kept to a minimum. I would have ordered long before with stronger steel, and it appears that Universal is coming around to using 1055. I suspect it will end up like my P1796, a wall hanger that I enjoy looking at.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 19:23:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 19:38:08 GMT
Together, the first run Empire on top Then the WE listed above at KOA
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Post by Uhlan on Nov 24, 2018 19:37:39 GMT
Pgandy: I bet the Princess will devour many bottles. It is said that the steel quality of yore cannot compete with the ultra clean steels we have now. I have the Princess too. It is well build. Great quality. I think our ancestors would have killed to get possession of a sabre like that. (pun intended)
Edelweiss: Thanks for the links. Very nice merchandise. If my memory is correct the Franklin Mint sword was a George Washington memorial sword.(?) Anyhow, it was very expensive. I saw one for sale somewhere in the second hand market at a discount price because the blue was damaged. The blue and gild pattern were printed on an adhesive plastic foil that, here and there, had lifted over time and now it looked like mice had nibbled on it with pieces of the foil loose from the blade and sticking up in the air. Those blades do not age well.
The blue pattern with the tendrils at the end, like on the first Eagle Head. I seem to remember we discussed this pattern before. I am reading up on this pattern because there are some interesting French, made in Solingen, sabres on offer that have it. Or trying to read as there is not much to go on, but from what I could find I take the general notion that this pattern is quite typical for around the 1820's? There seems to be some consensus on that period.
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