John Smith's Falchion -- myArmoury.com

William Goodwin · Posted: Tue 14 Sep, 2004 6:38 am Post subject:

here's a pic of the Falchion I mentioned earlier by Von Sussen Ent. in CT.

Bill

Patrick Kelly · Posted: Tue 14 Sep, 2004 7:56 am Post subject:

Sean Flynt · Posted: Tue 14 Sep, 2004 9:45 am Post subject:

I may try to work this out in wood, using the drawing as far as possible and filling in the gaps with photos of extant originals. Thanks, everybody!

E.B. Erickson · Industry Professional

Hey Sean,
Look what just turned up on the November Czerny's auction!
The catalog is online as of yesterday.

--ElJay

Russ Mitchell · Posted: Sun 31 Oct, 2004 9:52 am Post subject: Interesting

I wonder what happened to the rest of that blade before it was rehited?

Sean Flynt · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 6:35 am Post subject:

Ooooh! Thanks for that! Funny...I was just thinking about this topic again because I read that famed director Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, Badlands) is shooting The New World in Virginia with Colin Ferril as John Smith. Maybe this time next year MRL will be featuring a line of late 16th/early 17th c. falchions, rapiers and basket hilts! Of course, I'm still saving my pennies for next summer ;-/

William Goodwin · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 6:54 am Post subject:

Sean Flynt · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 7:17 am Post subject:

Hey, Bill, I figured you for an extra since they were filming around Williamsburg! Have you heard anything about this production? Malick and Ferill are big-time.

William Goodwin · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 7:30 am Post subject:

Sean Flynt · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 10:30 am Post subject:

Here's a still. I hope he doesn't carry that rapier through the whole picture. AMERICA NEEDS FALCHIONS!

Chris Holzman · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 1:42 pm Post subject: Re: Interesting

Gordon Frye · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject:

Sorry guys, but my wife saw the pic of Colin Ferril and had to throw this together. My apologies to all...

Gordon

Sean Flynt · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 1:51 pm Post subject:

What makes y'all doubt that this weapon was born a falchion? Looks much like other examples of the period, for example:

Jean Thibodeau · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject:

Funny Gordon: Someone else who has the "Power of Photoshop".........LOL

Sean Flynt · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject:

Oh, that's EXTRA funny! For all the bodice-ripping, Fabio style of this still, the picture actually promises to be pretty good with Malick at the helm. Christian Bale and Christopher Plummer star as well. The emphasis seems to be on Smith, Rolfe and Pocahantas.

Sean Flynt · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject:

Here's another (second quarter of 17th c. ?) with that distinctive stepped back. Hilt fashions changed a bit, but this blade type seems to have survived from at least the late 16th c. through the mid-17th. Or, I suppose all these blades could be late 16th and just rehilted for many decades.

Russ Mitchell · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

Gotta love that anglocentric scholarship... that "distinctive stepped back" only being one of the defining characteristics of one of the most common forms of eastern/east-central european sabre from, oh, the 9th century... that blade is your classic mid-to-late-fifteenth-century hungarian sabre blade, put on a more modern hilt.

Nathan Robinson · myArmoury Admin

William Goodwin · Posted: Mon 01 Nov, 2004 5:09 pm Post subject:

Sean,
More eye candy for ya' from Harold L. Peterson's book - "Arms and Armour in Colonial America 1526-1783"

Bill

Russ Mitchell · Posted: Tue 02 Nov, 2004 6:45 am Post subject: