Russ you're going to L-O-V-E this sword.

I had the opportunity to play with Peter's original last year, and spent some time looking at three of the Albion's last month. As I've said before, if I had to choose only one sword to own it would be this one regardless of period or style.

And yes I'm a wee bit envious as well ;)

Thank god that this one is from 30 years after my period!

I've handled Peter's original on many occasions, and I must say that Albion's version is extremely faithful to it.

On the niches,
Could they be anything to do with an emergency monetary source,
gold/silver etc,
just a thought,

Also must add it's a fine looking sword,

Sounds plausible, there's three of them so there are possibly trinity aspects as well...

Do you guys think the religous icons would be precious/semi precious material,
A sword of this quality would from the look of it have no expense spared in it's day,

Patrick wrote,

If I still had the haphazard "one of everything" collection that I used to I wouldn't hesitate to cull the herd. Alas, that isn't the case any longer.

Could be an interesting off topic thread,
stuff you've had and moved on for one reason or another and had second thoughts/couldnt post it quick enough,
:eek:
I'l be looking forward to your thorough review on the mentioned sword and that fine JP sword you have Russ,

I believe that Peter speculated that if there had been figures in the niches, they were probably made in gilt silver or gold.

Thanks Bjorn,
I wonder if anyone will follow up on having more detailing added,

Okay, for our Swedish Correspondents: Is this the same Svante Sture who, with his sons Nils and Erik, were murdered by King Erik XVth in Uppsala Castle in 1567? If so, you can see what the sons were wearing in Janet Arnold's book "Patterns of Fashion 1560-1620", since Sture's widow saved the clothing that they were wearing when killed. Mrs. Arnold drafted patterns from the clothing, and shows photographs of them in great detail. Here's the book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-...mp;s=books

Anyway, I have long wondered if the "Svante Sture" mentioned in both the Janet Arnold book, and the Sword, are one in the same. Thanks!

Gordon

Nathan;

Actually, I already have! I was pretty much assuming that you were the same "Nathan Robinson" for whom she made that GREAT Noble's suit... man, that is HOT! Lynn McMasters seems to have managed to gain the rather unusual distinction of being both an excellent researcher AND an excellent tailor... a very rare combination. Sad to say most "period clothing" is pretty poor stuff, one way or another. It's a joy to see the exceptions to that!

I've seen a couple of excellent renditions of the Nils Sture suit, and in fact used the basic cut of the inner-leather hose for a pair of Landsknect hose I made a LONG time ago (1982, I think, LOL! My sister in law was a member of the Royal Costume Society and gave me a copy of the issue that had Janet Arnold's original research paper on the Nils Sture suit in it, from 1978 or so). What is cool too is that there are also some weapons belonging to Erik XV still extant... a beautiful pair of iron-stocked wheellock pistols for instance. (Not sure if there is a picture of them on the Net, but the book "Guns" by Dudley Pope has a great photograph of the pair).

At any rate, I'm glad to know that you are a gentleman of as fine a taste in clothing as you are in swords: I really couldn't get over that suit when I first found it a week or so ago. VERY, VERY Nice!

Thanks for the info!

Cheers,

Gordon

Hey Peter,

Could you possibly expand on why you think the niches held religious icons and further why you think they might have been gold/silver gilt?