This sword is a reproduction. The pommel cap has a different shape than the originals, and the blade doesn't have the crisp lines of an antique.
Look at a food grade mineral oil. Also, consider Ballistol, with is a mineral oil/water emulsion for guns/wood/leather. It doesn't stain leather...
Document as much as you can. It'll make an interesting provenance.
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That is astoundingly beautiful! It would be fascinating to know the circumstances that led to it being where it was found.
It might as well have been! The camp was 40 acres but surrounded by about 4,000 acres of pine and oak forest. It could get mighty lonesome out...
Then I wouldn't have gone home with me either!!!
Boy, did he ever! We went out again later, but I let her pick the movie...
Years ago, I worked for a little country newspaper in NE Alabama. The area I lived in had several summer camps, and a friend of mine owned one...
Yes!
I knew you would be a source of good information! That's a lengthy read, but very interesting. The question was asked if anyone had seen an actual...
As I work my way through the silver my sister-in-law gave me back in the spring, I've run into a couple of things I have questions about, this...
Never had any major mishaps, until recently a ladder fell over and hit a sterling pitcher (fortunately neither old nor collectible) bending the...
I tried a couple of different lighting angles, but damned autofocus kept shifting. I'm going to try again without the AF setting. Thanks for the...
Do you know how difficult it is to photograph a Stanhope image? This watch fob in the shape of an anchor and telescope contains a Stanhope photo...
I agree that it's cedar, and I like that the carver valued function over decoration. The simplest designs can be the most effective, so yes, I...
I've got a few like this in my modest collection of photos. A photo-gallery tintype, popular at tourist destinations well in the 1920's. They...
He looks like Hotei, a Buddist monk who is one of the Japanese gods of good fortune.
Robert Louis Stevenson is one of those authors I go back to from time to time. "Kidnapped" is a favorite, as is "Treasure Island". To this day, I...
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