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Chad Arnow
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 Posted: Sat 29 May, 2010 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| Maurizio D'Angelo wrote: |
Is the famous sword of Vienna, S. Mauritius. Only with high magnification is more than 9000 pixels, so you can see the scrape.
With a normal resolution, these scratches are not visible, so.
Almost a contradiction: your photos are better quality than mine.
The continued reduction of the resolution gave a poor overall result, but the idea of the finish seems to have remained.
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Maurizio,
If you'd like you can email me the full pic and I'll size it the best I can so it can be seen. If you're interested in that, PM me and I'll send you my email address.
ChadA
http://chadarnow.com/
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Maurizio D'Angelo
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| Posted: Sat 29 May, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| Chad Arnow wrote: |
Maurizio,
If you'd like you can email me the full pic and I'll size it the best I can so it can be seen. |
I have restrictions from the museum, I have no problems sending to you, it only for study and personal, which is just great, a picture, if I remember correctly 120 Mb. My e-mail can send only 20 Mb. 4 photos fill a CD.
I received via ftp.
Ciao
Maurizio
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David Sutton
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| Posted: Sat 29 May, 2010 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Maurizio D'Angelo wrote: | A letter of gratitude. If it was common because show gratitude?
Maybe you can interpret that it was not the norm mirror polished sword? |
I'm not at all suggesting that period swords were 'mirror polished' in the way that say a Windlass sword is. In fact a sword blade doesn't have to be finished to the degree of a mirror for you to see your face in it.
But Theodoric's letter might suggest that the finish of a sword blade was possibly a lot finer than we imagine; and we find on modern reproductions. Meader suggests that the polish of a sword was probably of great importance to the early medieval mind in a similar way that it was to the Japanese. By revealing the grain and pattern of the steel in such a way, it was possible to descern the quality of work. To show all this might well have required a Japanese-style polish.
| Quote: | Perhaps a taste of the owner, but perhaps not manufacturing, apart from these specific swords, of course.
another thought, why, today, we use acids to highlight the texture of damask? No, it is less evident, probably.
just my thought |
Yes the polish on these swords could well be of a high standard because they were given as expensive gifts made to impress. But then again swords of the this era were by their nature, as high status items, made to impress.
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Hadrian Coffin
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Location: Oxford, England Joined: 03 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Sat 29 May, 2010 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | A puzzling aspect of it is that there are some small metal (or epoxy?) shapes between the guard and the blade shoulder corners. I wonder if these may be something the curator did to hold the restored assembly together? |
Hello,
If I am interpreting what you are referring to correctly it is not epoxy, nor was it to hold the sword together. It is the "hook" holding the sword to the wall.
Cheers,
Hadrian
Historia magistra vitae est
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Jared Smith
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| Posted: Sun 30 May, 2010 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| Hadrian Coffin wrote: | It is the "hook" holding the sword to the wall.
Cheers,
Hadrian |
Wow... I guess that must be it. I am not used to seeing a hook fit the piece so tightly.
Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence!
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