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Topic: What would you like me to make?
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chef de chambre
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posted 04-08-2002 10:03 PM
    
Hi Mark,Buckles and furniture specificaly for swordbelts, 15th century as well as 14th. Most of the buckles out there are too light for the task, or a-historical. -------------------- Bob R.
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Hugh Knight
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posted 04-09-2002 06:08 PM
Hi Mark,I'm looking for a 14th-century or earlier French church chalice such as an English knight might have looted from the surplus collections they had in France (surplus because of the decreased number of churches after the English visits...). I would like it made out of silver since that's what my references talk about, English knights drinking out of silver chalices they looted (see Keen p. 233). -------------------- Regards,
Hugh Knight
Welcome to the Church of the Open Field; let us 'prey': Hunt hard, kill swiftly, waste nothing, make no aplogies.
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Anne-Marie
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posted 04-09-2002 06:26 PM
hey Mark!
you know me, I'm a sucker for any appropriate accoutrements. Right now I'm looking for a source for belt fittings for those mondo wide 15th century womens belts (ie 3" or more).but then you knew that when you saw the ones I marked in your book at that last event, right?
 --AM -------------------- "Let Good Come of It"
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chef de chambre
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posted 04-09-2002 09:22 PM
Hi Hugh,That would be hollow ware, and is formed by a silversmith with hammerwork. Usually they were gilt as well, at least on the inside. I know some competant smiths/jewlers who can make them, but there is no difference between a chalice made for secular use and sacremental use in the late middle ages. In point of fact, most early church cups were initialy intended for secular use before being donated for church use, and being consecrated for use. I've seen the Keen reference, and frankly, I think it is a contemporary (to the hundred years war) exaggeration emphasising the 'wickedness' of the English. The only solid documentation I have seen regarding the English royal host, and the Kings attitude toward the looting of churches is the record of the court-matial held by Henry V when a soldier looted a gilt bronze piece from a church - Henry hanged him for his pains. What bands of flayers would do is a different thing, but then no self respecting knight worthy of the name would sink so low. -------------------- Bob R.
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Reinhard von Lowenhaupt
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posted 04-10-2002 08:22 PM
Hi Mark,Would you be interested in making some custom buttons? If so, please email me privately. Thanks. -------------------- Per Mortem Vinco
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David Meyer
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posted 05-07-2002 05:11 PM
Greetings!I would be very interested in a few custom leather stamps! The 14th C. technique of applying designs to leather projects with heated metal stamps is called "Blindpressung" in German, and I'm interested in giving it a try. The stamps would probably need to be cast in bronze or something harder so that it could be heated and hammered onto the leather without deformation. I picked up some simple period patterns in the "Deutsches Ledermuseum" in Offenbach this afternoon - seems to be a common decoration technique. Interested?? David
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Fire Stryker
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posted 12-20-2005 10:15 AM
Hi Colin,do you have a url that you can share? I could probably google it, but I'm just to lazy at the moment. Jenn -------------------- ad finem fidelis
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