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Copyright © Malcolm Fare 2010 - 2020 |
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Among the latest acquisitions are: |
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- Earliest known fencing art medal dated 1899 and presented as a school prize in Nantes, south-west France.
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- Silver cup presented as the second prize in the epee team event at the 1913 Earls Court international tournament.
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- 1896 silver medal struck to commemorate the fencing author Henry Colmore-Dunn, the rim inscribed to his fencing master Corporal-Major John Blackburn.
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- Pair of late 19th century French epees with blades made by the Solingen maker Samuel Hoppe (1827-85).
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- Pair of late 19th century French epees, guards etched with a coronet above the initials RB.
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- Late 17th century foil with broken blade stamped IHN SOLINGEN
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- Pair of late 18th century foils with leather guards and blades stamped IN SOLINGEN.
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- Earliest dated foil, blade stamped 1764
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- Pair of early 20th century ladies’ foils stamped Gardiner (sports equipment suppliers of Hoddesdon, Herts).
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- Earliest known illustration of a practice rapier, from Hundt, 1611.
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- Late 19th century watercolour by the French artist Albert Mantelet showing a ladies’ fencing club.
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