From inside an Austria armory

GTAsteel

GTAsteel

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Hey guys........ I not realy follow along in the world of long sharp things but I saw some stuff today that I thought was pretty cool and I thought I would share.

I am once again in Austria, visiting the girlfriend, and she took me to a museum just full to the brim with all the weapons and armor one would need to have a nice little crusade. Wildly enough you could get right up to the pieces and take pictures all you wanted. So armed with the girls digital camera, I took a few hundred. So far the close up ones look like crap but a few came out ok. I think I can doctor some of them into something viewable but untill then here are a few for your perusal. When I get back to Japan, I´ll work on the rest of the pics and post the link if there is some interest.

I don´t know how many of you have ever had the chance to see blades and armor from back in the day when it was big buisness, but they are not NEARLY as clunky (is that a word?) as most people would think.

Again, I´ll post more if there is interest.
 
excellent photos...thanks for sharing and hope to see more, thankyou
 
Very cool, I was especially interested in the oddly shaped sheilds and the strange ring hilted sword. Do you have any more pictures of that sword?
 
Originally posted by Triton
the strange ring hilted sword. Do you have any more pictures of that sword?
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This is the info I have on that sword, from the book I bought there.

about the 4 sword pictured together similar to the one I took the pic of:
"Presumably under Turkish influence, a lighter kind of estoc won favor as the following modle of the Late Middle Ages's thrust sword. Two different makes of it were produced in Styria*: the German and the Hungarian or Croatian estoc. The former has a symmetrical hilt and are worked in the Hungarian way. This weapon was carried by horsed arqebusiers, whereas the Hungarian modle was used by Husars. These arms were manufactured in Graz, Judenburg and Passau."

about the sowrd I photographed inparticular (as best i can tell its the same one)

"ESTOC,
Styrian, 4th quarter of the 16th century

Pear-shaped, twisted pommel and grip covered with leather; bladewith rhombic section. Scabbard with two wire rings and a long chape."


*Styria is the section of Austria were Graz and the armory are. Once a larg military power, but now largly agricultural, it seems to me.

More pics to follow.

edited cuz the y and the z are in different places on German keyboards..... :o
 
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