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Post by pgandy on Oct 26, 2020 13:06:29 GMT
Eric's Rose purchase brings that stock down to one but the seller seems to get batches every year. Cheers GC I've taken steps helping to clear the sword. If so it will save me the longest trip to another province, the fatherliest I need to travel. That will leave me with one other journey that I see no way to avoid. Sometimes a sword will come through without a hitch and I need only to go to my local pickup station. But I've learned to prepare for the worse and hope for the best. My freight forwarder is arbitrary to say the least.
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Post by pgandy on Oct 26, 2020 16:23:41 GMT
Oct 25th Eric's Rose purchase brings that stock down to one but the seller seems to get batches every year. Cheers GC This one has been on my mind long enough, I pulled the trigger. I feel uneasy with the exposure I will be subject to but at least for the second leg, the long trip to the ministry for approval, I have help. Sometimes that requires more than one trip. I dread the trip to customs, that turns into a long drawn out affair. There will be at least two to the freight forwarder. But then maybe I’ll get lucky and this will one of those times it comes through without a hitch. This will probably be my sword for the year.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2020 17:58:59 GMT
The spadroon marooned in the ebb of the tide has surfaced in Providence at last.
"Your item arrived at our PROVIDENCE RI DISTRIBUTION CENTER destination facility on October 29, 2020 at 1:24 pm. The item is currently in transit to the destination."
So, Friday instead of Monday but all in all still pretty quick.
I'll do a group hug photo of some straight stuff some time soon. A couple of other old spadroons and a smallsword from the past few years that are here, as opposed to stuff in storage. Maybe next year I'll have all the stuff home.
Cheers GC
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2020 17:44:35 GMT
A quickie phone picture, with more coming another day. Here in one corner with a smallsword and one of my slave drives. Wow, is that a bad piccie. Anyway, The sword arrived with some snow. Listed for customs as an old tool (hey, I resemble that remark). It is ivory. It does seem to have been shortened. Some of these with German made blades have an early fuller termination and more back edge. I'd estimate that it was once four to six inches longer. The lady Brittania figure is below the George but on the same side. The obverse of the blade is mostly just foliate. The etching is hard to see in darker rooms. The hilt fittings had been heavily browned at some point. It is possible that was done early in its life but I have encountered more than one instance when it was done to "blend" a salt&pepper antique oxidation. The blade on this one is 8mm at the guard. The spine only reduces to about 7mm at the pob (four inches or so). Another indication that it had been shortened is that it is still 3mm behind this point and that the back edge grind is only a couple of inches long. The smallsword pictured above has a 30" blade. My weekend is a bit complicated but I will get a small family of spadroons and Rose up for comparisons. The hilt is full size, so not some scaled down junior. I may clean up the ivory but I need to assemble the pick kit and maybe while I watch tv. The reeding is quite impacted. Mostly a sword I will leave alone. Cheers GC
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 1:32:02 GMT
Working on some basic cleaning. The grip has a couple of hairline cracks, which is somewhat typical with these reeded grips. What is really neat on this one is the cross section of the grip has the four corners higher with a valley to the contour on all four sides.A thumbnail, bamboo and a needle, with Windex and a paper towel. There was a lot of grime in them thar hills. open in a new tab or window for big Cheers GC
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