My Collection of Assorted Means of Medieval Mayhem

My apologies for the graininess of the images. During post-processing to convert them from 8MP camera-raw to 800x533pixel JPEG I discovered the camera had been set to ISO 1600, rather than the default range of 100 or 200.

I also apologize for the backdrop; white sheet on an inflatable matress, shot from an angle, with shoe-mount flash on the camera. Maybe someday in the future I will reshoot these with a better backdrop, using a fixed photo-lamp and reflector(s) to control the light.

For scale, the molding strips are each 47 inches long. And yes, I do know that Museum Replicas is a subsidiary of Atlanta Cutlery.

Name	Period	Source
Bastard Sword "Reluctant"	1280	Museum Replicas Del Tin, Italy One of the first 5 styles produced, limited quantity of 500 each (as I recall).
Broad Sword "Hungry"		Museum Replicas Del Tin, Italy One of the first 5 styles produced, limited quantity of 500 each (as I recall).
Great Sword Sword of Pavia	1525	Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
"Leuterit" Viking	750	Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
German Hunting Saber Pommel needs polishing		Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
Cinqueda Renaissance Short Sword Sword length rather than long dagger style.	1450	Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
Scottish Basket-hilt Cutlass Basket needs polishing.	1690	Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
Classical Rapier out of focus	1600	Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
Military Sword Rapier A transition between broadswords and thin rapiers. Though if I recall the catalog the actual period makes it a reversion as it comes after the development of rapiers.		Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
War Hammer		Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
Yatagan		Atlanta Cutlery
Brass-hilted Rondel While it does have an edge, the blade is very thick, and the point could be used to punch through armor. 1350 Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India Baselard Dagger 1450 Museum Replicas Del Tin, Italy Four-sided Turned Stiletto A modern design not based upon any historical example. Museum Replicas
Bayonet Unidentified, but similar to M1889 Belgian 1890 Antique Shop in the UK German Brass-hilted Short Sword Possibly an M1852 Prussian Infanterie Faschinenmesser 1850 Antique Shop in the UK Three-sided Venetian Stiletto 1520 Museum Replicas Windlass Steelcrafts, India
Gold Flower Katana Damascus style steel		Museum Replicas China
T'ai Chi (Jian) Sword Damascus style steel Needs a good cleaning & polishing to remove corrosion building up where the scabbard snugs down on the blade. The tassels would probaby be removed for actual practice.		Museum Replicas China
Shirasaya Properly, a shirasaya is a white (bare) wood scabbard and hilt, with no guard, used for long term storage of a katana blade. The red lacquer finish is what makes this an "improper" shirasaya; the lacquer finish can result in the scabbard trapping moisture. This package included a maintenance kit in the box (hammer for tapping out the hilt pin, cleaning papers, polishing duster).		Museum Replicas China
Dragon-hilt Katana A copy of the model used in the Highlander series, from the manufacturer that provided them to the series as I recall, though appears to be a lower-quality than the current Marto of Spain productions.	Modern	Museum Replicas Toledo (?), Spain
Air Force Academy Dress Sword	Modern
Basket-hilt Claymore	>1700	Atlanta Cutlery Possibly from Windlass Steelcrafts.
Civil War Union Saber	1860	Atlanta Cutlery
Civil War Confederate Saber	1860	Atlanta Cutlery
US Infantry Sword	1840	Atlanta Cutlery
US Foot Artillery Short Sword Styled after the Napoleonic short sword, itself based upon the Roman Gladius.	1832	Atlanta Cutlery
The following items are wall-hanger/decorative items. They are made from cheap metals with tangs that would break upon use, or are just so unbalanced that an edge-on strike is unlikely unless two hands are used.
Katana Chrome-plated blade, shark-skin pattern plastic hilt, blade pin is loose.
Sword of Charlemagne Thin tang, I believe this is a scaled-down model as it was described as a two-handed longsword, but this is not even a hand-and-a-half grip.
Battle Axe Blade is too thin, and the balance is such that the only way to swing this reliably is a two-handed hold (one hand at each set of "rings".		Atlanta Cutlery

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