art-of-swords:

Smallsword

• Dated: circa 1655–60
• Culture: French, probably Paris
• Medium: Iron, gold, wood, copper alloy, steel
• Measurements: Length overall, 41 in. (104.1 cm) Length of blade, 34 1/2 in. (87.5 cm
• Classification: Swords

Source: © 2000–2013 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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ancient-serpent:

Dagger and sheath, Iran, 19th century, V&A Museum

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art-of-swords:

Exhibition or Presentation Russian Kastane

• Dated: 1850
• Provenance: Comte de Nesselrode, Château de Tzarevtchina (Governement de Saratov, Russia)
• Goldsmith: Ignatii Pavlovitch Sazikov
• More on the Kastane Sword

Mounted in heavily cast and chased silver-gilt, the hilt in traditional Sinhalese style elaborately decorated with guilloche, fluting and panels of engraved foliage and florets, with the pommel and quillon formed as the stylised heads of lions and the ogee-shaped knucklebow emerging at the quillon from the mouth of a beast and terminating at the pommel in the stylised head of a dragon.

The eyes of all the beasts on the hilt formed of cabochon-cut garnets or rubies – that on the nearside of the pommel replaced; below the quillon block the hilt widens to form a stepped collar into which are struck the maker’s mark of the St Petersburg court goldsmith Ignatii Pavlovitch Sazikov, the standard mark for 84 zolotniki and the assay master’s mark for Dmitri Tverskoy with the date 1850.

The wide blade of reduced Ottoman kiliç form in Damascus steel of Kirk Narduban pattern, with residual openwork panels of gilding either side of its back edge and a raised forte terminating in chiselled mihrab-style points. The scabbard of heavily cast and chased silver-gilt, decorated overall with foliage and guilloche.

The near- and off-sides set with blue and green cabochon-cut turquoises, the chape formed as a stylised dragon’s head, the back edge decorated with a pattern of overlapping scales and fitted with two loose rings in multifaceted mounts and the upper part formed of two bands of elongated hexagons.

Source & Copyright: Peter Finer

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heyhocloudy:

notactuallythor:

The Wallace Collection: A selection of Crossbows 

oh my gfuucking god you dont even know how much i love crossbows

these are so fuckign cool im cry

the top one looks like a sword or some shit!! aah

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calantheandthenightingale:

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coffeecupsandraybans:

Tiffany & Co. Arms from the Robert M. Lee Collection. See more from the collection here.

Top Photo: Colt Single Action Army Tiffany & Co. Revolver, popularly known as a Third Generation Colt Single Action Army.

Bottom Photo:Smith & Wesson Presentation and Exhibition Frontier Tiffany & Co. Revolver, circa 1892-93

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remorsefulnero:

Napoleon Bonaparte’s flintlock pistol (via pyrrhosrepublic).  Since this was probably more a decorative item, it would be worth starting a comic/cartoon about Napoleon just so he could be depicted using it to own royalists and Austrians and the like. Talk about giving them a whiff of grapeshot.

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