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I'll be there as its organised by my reenactment group (well the group i am in that it, I dont actually own it ha ha). I'll have a look and see if i can get there a day early maybe so I can check out the Naval museum in Portsmouth too as I havent been yet. A good cheap hotel chain is http://www.travelodge.co.uk/

heres the actual miquelet lock pistol that Barbossa used: http://www.tortugatrading.com/engine/inspect.asp?Item=678&Filter=Movie+Memorabilia&Name=(%231.+PRIMARY)+An+Antique+Spanish+Miqulet+Flintlock+Pistol%2C+Used+as+Prop+in+PIRATES+II+%26+III+by+BARBOSSA%2C+Singapore+Scene

it lists it as a Spanish Miqulet Flintlock Pistol on this page. I dont think its the actual one Barbossa used though http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean:_The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl

Does anyone have a pair of shoe buckles made by Gentlemen of Fortune that they want to part with? I could really do with a pair and I dont think GoF is selling them anymore as I havent had any emails about them answered.

I just found another interesting book from 1701 that I thought people on here would be interested in. Its entitled "An exact abridgment of all the statutes of King William and Queen Mary, and of King William III. in force and vse" by Joseph Washington and is about the parlimentary statutes issued during the year 1700. Of particular interest are pages 314-320 on the Statutes relating to Seamen. http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

No Problem. How do i do that then? Cut and paste doesnt seem to work. Is there some secret knowledge to it or do i have to put all the picture links in manually again?

Description 1667 French Portrait of Henri de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt, traditionally known as 'le Cadet à la Perle'; the sitter is seen three-quarter length, in a richly embroidered costume with insignia of the Order of the Saint-Esprit and a pearl on his left ear, standing near gauntlets and a helmet, and holding a command baton, with nocturnal landscape and fortress on fire in the background and his coat of arms in the lower margin. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1351047&partid=1&searchText=earring&fromDate=1650&fromADBC=ad&toDate=1730&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=49 Description 1680-1720 British Portrait of John Hardman the Famous Corncutter (as in chiropodist), half length in an oval, long hair and moustache, wearing hat, earring, neckcloth, coat, and two badges with royal coat of arms. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_image.aspx?objectId=1668642&partId=1&searchText=earring&fromDate=1650&fromADBC=ad&toDate=1730&toADBC=ad&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&numPages=10&currentPage=52&asset_id=225820 Just goes to show that there was people all around the world wearing earrings in that time period and people from different walks of life and social standing too. Still no other pictures of sailors though up to yet. I'll keep looking.

Heres a load more (just for reference of what male earrings looked like around the GAOP period if nothing else) Description 1585-1656 French Portrait of an unknown man; head and shoulders turned slightly to left, looking to front, small beard and moustache, wearing shirt with large collar and earring http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=721818&partid=1&searchText=earring&fromDate=1650&fromADBC=ad&toDate=1730&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=28 Description 1642-1665 British Portrait of William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, half length in an oval, beard and moustache, wearing earring, ruff, ribbon and George, and holding wand. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=3049329&partid=1&searchText=earring&fromDate=1650&fromADBC=ad&toDate=1730&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=35 Description 1685-1740 Italian/Dutch Portrait of a tousled-haired soldier with earring on left earlobe, seen three-quarter length, standing before a low bas-relief, his right hand on his sword handle, the other hand pointing to the distance, where three soldiers can be seen in a landscape dominated by a fortress http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=3252337&partid=1&searchText=earring&fromDate=1650&fromADBC=ad&toDate=1730&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=45

thats very cool

Two (in the same ear). And yes. i must have mis-spent my youth in the same way as I have 2 in one ear also (although it was originally 3 but after bending a cheap metal ring together in my ear it went a bit funny and healed up) There is actually another dutch sketch of a man wearing an earring dating from between 1636-1674. He is aparently wearing oriental costume though so he could be a merchant of some sort. He certainly doesnt look oriental: http://www.britishmu...&currentPage=12 Description Portrait of an unidentified man with a beard and short hair, bust seen in profile to left but staring at the viewer, in oriental costume with jewels on his shoulder, an earring in his left ear There is also an italian picture of a Turkish man from 1648 - 1651 wearing an earring: http://www.britishmu...&currentPage=16 Description Turk with a moustache and beard; bust portrait, turned towards right, wearing an earring and a turban decorated with five small feathers at front; an oval composition. 1649-1650 Then theres this 1683 British drawing of a young boy with an earring very similar to the ones in the Dutch pictures: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1513556&partid=1&searchText=earring&fromDate=1650&fromADBC=ad&toDate=1730&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=24 Description Head of a young black boy, looking to left, wearing a broad square white collar and an earring; a copy in reverse after Hollar. c.1683

actually it looks more like a pearl ear pendant so not exactly your typical "gypsy" massive golden earrings that hollywood associate with pirates...havent seen many guys wearing those... I always took it as being a pearl too. Infact the one that I made to wear at events is a pearl one. I forgot to take it out after though and got some funny looks on the Train home

Found the thread you were referring to: http://pyracy.com/in...=1 But the website that was linked to the British Museum wasn't quite working. Any chance anyone else can find a working one? Also, why is it that its that these examples are all Dutch? Is it possible that they have them because they went somewhere where locals wore ear rings (the east indies or somewhere on the way?). Anyway, all I have to say about hair beads, head scarves, earrings, and the lot is: blame Howard Pyle, he screwed it up for all of us. try this link: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1616806&partid=1&searchText=Siege+of+Namur&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1 If that doesnt work go here: http://www.britishmuseum.org/ Click the research tab and type: Siege of Namur

As someone who has dreadlocks and has had them way before Pirates of the Caribbean was made I have to agree with Foxe. I have tried my hardest to find some reference to Pirate or Sailors having dreadlocks (although dreadlocks is a modern term from the 1950s if I recall). The closest reference I found to dreadlocks and infact beads etc. being worn in the hair can be found in the 1708 book; "A new voyage to the East-Indies by Francis Leguat and his companions..." By François Leguat & Maximilien Misson. When visiting the Cape of good hope he encountered the Khoikhoi people living among the colonists. They were then referred to as Hottentot’s. A description of them mentions the following: "Their Hair is all frizled, greasie, and powderd with Dust, and moreover matted together in Tufts, to each of which hangs a piece of Glass, or some small bit of Copper or other Metal." Also there is a reference in the 1729 book "Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's journal, during fifteen years captivity on that island" By Daniel Defoe that mentions a meeting with the King of one of the tribes on the island: "His hair was twisted in knots, beginning at the Crown of his Head, making a small ring ; then another Ring of Knots bigger than that, and so on downward, every circle larger than the upper ; on several of these knots of Hair hung some fine beads : He had a fore-head piece of Beads so low , that some of them hung over his nose....." and finally in the 1714 book "The travels of several learned missioners of the Society of Jesus: into divers parts of the archipelago, India, China, and America. Containing a general description of the most remarkable towns; with a particular account of the customs, manners and religion of those several nations, the whole interspers'd with philosophical observations and other curious remarks" By Jesuits, Diéreville the natives of Accadia (Canada) "They bind their hair with strings of black and white small glass beads, and make a great knot of it, which hangs no lower than their ears..." So the hair style may have exsisted in some form and natives that had come into contact with seafarers had hairbeads but as Foxe says there is no reference to any pirates, sailors or even colonists adopting it. That said, as people say above we live in the 2 different worlds being a reenactor, and as more of the time I am in the modern guise I won't be getting rid of my dreads anytime soon. I can disguise them if need be with a large monmouth or thrum cap. Also as I have a great interest in the Dutch side of things in the GAOP I am sticking to wearing an earring too as I think we proved dutch sailors wore those from the pictures I posted elsewhere on the site.

This is a 1673 Broadside entitled Vrbis, & Orbis that was printed in Guatemala Unfortunately the pictures to small to make out any detail and they want $12,000 for the original. Our image above shows clearly that we have in hand an intact bifolium, i.e., two copies, as printed, on an uncut half sheet—one on the recto (at right, in the image, showing through the paper), and one on the verso (at the left)—the two never having been separated. Guatemala was the fourth Latin American city to have a printing press (after Mexico, Lima, and Puebla de los Angeles); the press was brought at the instigation of the bishop of Guatemala, Payo Enríquez de Ribera, who wished to have a work of his own published. In reply to the bishop's appeal for a printer, José Pineda Ibarra arrived at Antigua in 1660. He had worked as an assistant to several printers in Mexico, but according to Medina did not have his own press; when Payo de Ribera's representative found him, he had moved to Puebla, but was apparently not doing well there. (Medina does not list him as a printer in Puebla—presumably he was again working for others.) The bishop apparently paid for the press that was taken to Guatemala, and Pineda Ibarra later purchased it from him. Torre Revello (quoted in Furlong) remarks that despite the dearth of materials, Pineda Ibarra managed to print exceedingly well: "Ningún tipógrafo de los que le sucedieron, durante el periodo colonial, logró superar la pulchritud y elegancia de sus trabajos." This example shows not only several sizes of type, but a woodcut of a papal tiara, at the top of the edict, flanked by typographical ornaments; a line of typographical ornament also appears on either side of the date of the edict, near the bottom of the page. The various religious orders in Guatemala had promised to make it worth the while of a printer to come, by giving him commissions. Judging from the list of over 30 works Pineda Ibarra printed before 1673—eulogies, sermons, constitutions, regulations, descriptions of religious festivities—the orders fulfilled their promise; his major productions, however, were Bishop de Ribera's Explicatio apologetica nonnullarum propositionum . . . , 1663, and Diego Saenz Ovecuri's La Thomasiada, 1667. Also a bookseller and binder, Pineda Ibarra died in 1679. He was succeeded in 1681 by his son, Antonio de Pineda Ibarra, under whom the press operated until 1721. The text in hand, a papal edict of 23 July 1672, changes the office for St. Peter Nolasco used by Mercedarians from semiduplex to duplex, at the request of the Queen of France. The Orden Real de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Redemción de Cautivos, was already established in Guatemala (cf. Medina, Guatemala, 38), and probably paid Pineda Ibarra to print this work. • Not in Medina, Guatemala; on the printer, see: Medina's introduction, pp. xviii–xx. Not in Valenzuela, Imprenta en Guatemala; O'Ryan, Bib. Guatemalteca; NUC; BMC. See, however, Oswald, p. 539; Furlong, Orígenes, p. 91; and Woodbridge and Thompson, Printing in Colonial Spanish America, pp. 81–84.

I was hoping that the books i posted the links too might have the tunes to these ballads in them as they are usually sung to the music of other more popular songs. I must get round to looking.

Special Offer: I am selling the Replica 1652 Dutch Baldric (shown in the photos tab) with the waist belt, plug bayonet frog and axe holder for $233 I can also supply the plug bayonet (with the battle ready blunt blade and aged brass hilt metalwork) shown above and below for $70

What you really need is a copy of Woodall's book the surgion's mate. There is actually more information in there which answers your question than I care to type in and re-print. We're talking 50+ pages of material including long lists of tools, medicines, their uses and their locations in the chest (sort of) and so forth. It will require some reading and deciphering effort, but it you want a period surgeon's chest, that's the best way I know of to get the info you're asking for. I urge you to go to the source. I explain how you can get a pdf copy with a little effort in this post. Get the 1639 version of the book as it also has material on barbering and other miscellaneous equipment in the added chapters. Good luck! Ahhh yeah EEBO is the holy grail. I've been trying to get into that for years now. The university I went to doesnt have access to it. You have to have a university account to access it from the universities that do have it over here and they dont give you one of them unless you are a student there.

I never knew you were after some of these. I've had a load since before we even got talking about the chests. Just building a captains liquor chest with similar bottles in it based on one from 1756.

I'm sure I have read an account somewhere of someone that was issued a letter of marque from one of the Spanish colonies. There was certainly a lot of activity in the West Indies by Spanish privateers around the early 1700s it would seem. This book has an account of some of the things that the Spanish Privateers were up to in 1728: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z6U1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&dq=spanish+privateer&hl=en&ei=55wjTY6mAcXIhAeR5ui3Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=spanish%20privateer&f=false

This 1823 book titled "Transactions of the Associated Apothecaries and Surgeon- apothecaries of England and Wales" mentions the contents of a Dressing Box. Not sure if this is what would have been in an early 18th century one but its a good starting point.

Mine Arrived this morning and WOW what a cool gift. A folding field/writing desk with ink and quills. Will go great with the inkwell i just bought. Cheers Wes, you rock! (it's never very secret when its international post ha ha)

ha ha i've never needed a reason to drink

Thats what i plan to do. Probably cost a fortune in hand made linen laid paper but it will be worth it for effect. Just researching the binding techniques from back then and I can get a start on it.

Happy to help. I think it will go nicely with those spoons of yours. When it arrives, can you PM me and let me know how much it weighs? yeah no problem. probably take a few weeks to get here

I dont suppose anyone knows anywhere that does a replica of a fork like this one do they? Not exactly the same, but made from period molds: http://www.thomasdal...om/as-flt6.html Thanks i will be ordering that as soon as they open for business