Settler's Day September 17-18 2016 Manville, RI

horseclover

horseclover

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Since 2003, I have been gathering with friends and the public for a display of swords, knives, axes, spears and even some shields and armor. Barring undo weather, we will be under some pines, just inside the compound. It is a great opportunity to share with the public and get together with friends. There are often targets to cut. The mat guy appreciates donations if wanting to cut. There are a wide variety of swords and knives. I bring in antiques from the 18th-20th century.. Usually a great many eagle pommel swords.

The weekend has many activities run by the club, including the firearms ranges. Those club activities are ticket based, while there are other vendors and reenactors setting up. No two years have been the same but regulars include a few Civil War guys and a blacksmith. A busy weekend in New England but we often see a group come in as a drum circle. Johnny Cash, Elvis and old tyme fiddlers, as well as food. Family friendly, the event is a large local draw. BYO chairs and sundries.

Shuttles run from a parking lot by the big road and if wanting to share items at our tables let me know. The club is very open to any and all displays and vendors. If wishing to as an independent, just let the club know.. I am generally setting up by about 8am and things wind down by about 5pm.

Cheers

GC

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My, how time flies. I swear each year I will be showing fewer swords and this year it may be true. It is pretty strange to me that the antiques are of less interest to many. It is normal that the knife table getts a lot of attention from the younger guys but it is typically the newly made reproduction swords that appeal to most men.

So, rather than displaying four dozen swords, I may only be loading half that (more knives though).

Cheers

GC
 
A slow summer in this subforum but a one month reminder for this event.

Cheers

GC
 
Great turn out Saturday and hopefully the weather stays dry today. It is Sleepy Hollow season

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Some of my favorite knives

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Flotsam and jetsam

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When are too many not enough? I had started with one EG Waterman and then seemed to have adopted a flock of them (tinypic is screwing me with rotated pictures).

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A mixed bag with khukri topping

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Oh bollocks

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A rougue Baron with some katana

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Overcast skies today may make for better pictures. A lot of stuff today got washed out by the brightness.

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Cheers

GC
 
Hope y'all had a great turn-out.

And how long does it take you to set all that up / break it back down?
 
About an hour to unload and set up, an hour or so breaking it down but loading and unloading plus "re-stocking" at my end entails a few day on each end. The others help out but that isn't any quicker in the end. I pack roughly fifty swords and about that many knives, with two others bringing up to twenty pieces. My one large 40" expedition bag carries roughly thirty and it could carry more except all the weight adds up. Others are loaded in a loose pile like a pile of logs. Three fragile travel in a rifle case. All in a station wagon, three tables, swords, knives in a satchel and tool box. Utility bucket of tricks and tools, four spears and a flag pole, racks, bag o books, bag of sundries. It is a bit of a minor production.

It was a very busy afternoon. Lots of lookers, one regular patron both buying some of my precious es while giving me a gift. Now that's a customer. I try to treat her right. She bought both days. I had to bid adieu to my subhilt Blackjack 1-7. At least I know it is going to a good home. I think it was the sharpness demonstration carving some wood. All the sales were knives this year. I usually sell a sword each year.


Back in the 1950s, Norm Flayderman traveled from Maine back to New York with the entire Medicus collection. Hundreds of swords in the back of a station wagon in layers of swords and newspaper. I start to feel like that more and more. ;)

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Maybe a couple of today pictures but it was mostly hawk tossers and kinder in helmets.

Cheers

GC
 
HA! Good stuff, Horseclover. :thumbup:
 
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