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Here's a couple more examples of Stiletto Daggers I just found in an Italian Museum Circa 1650-1700

I wonder what colour 'sad coloured' is?

Ahh, great stuff! By reenactment blade, do you mean that this is one with blunted edges and a rounded tip? Love their work. I've got 3- an irish hilt backsword, a halfbasket mortuary, and a pikeman's hanger- all combat blunts. I'm waiting for them to come up with a cutlass that I like. Hawkyns yep its the blunted blade with the rounded tip. Just learning sword play so thought I'd better start blunt else i'd have my own leg off.

Got my new sword from Armour Class last week. Its their Schiavona Re-enactment With Shark Skin Grip but I had it modified with the blade from the hanger they sell put onto it instead of the broadsword blade it originally had.

I got another one of these belts up for sale now in a slightly lighter tan colour. I am also interested in trading if anyone has a wool or linen waistcoat they want to part with (xxl size) $97

I now saving up for one of your sailors jackets. What colors do you do the wool ones in?

This site http://cf.hum.uva.nl/galle/avondster/finds.html claims that Tea was actually shipped in storage jars. Some of these Jars were recovered from the wreck of the Avondster that sank in 1659 on its way to India. Storage jars are always found on ships of this period. They were used as containers for sugar, salt, tea, salted fish, candied fruit, butter, oil, wine, spirits, opium, and even holy water and mud from the Ganges. More prosaically, they were used to store drinking water. Jars like that on the far right are known as martabans (in Dutch, martavan), after Martaban in Burma where they were originally made; the word came to be used for similar jars from all over Asia.

I just came across these examples of Medicine Jars recovered from the wreck of the Dutch vessel Avondster which sank in 1659. Medicine jars were found in the stern. One contained mercury, used in the seventeenth century for treating a whole range of ailments. The contents of another jars are being analysed. http://cf.hum.uva.nl/galle/avondster/finds.html">http://cf.hum.uva.nl/galle/avondster/finds.html

That would be cool if they had a catalogue. Maybe we can find some of the works online then and I can get some more analysis done. I shall call on Monday and find out what I can. I've yet to see an exhibit at the Peabody-Essex that didn't offer a full color catalogue covering the exhibit. This work was on loan from a Royal Museum in Great Britton. If you can find out which museum I might be able to go and see them myself then

That would be cool if they had a catalogue. Maybe we can find some of the works online then and I can get some more analysis done.

After looking more into the Artist it seems that he was most active in Haarlem in the Netherlands so its more than likely not the new world after all. I assumed it may have been the new world as the trees looked a little more exotic than european trees.

I thought I'd share some research I have been doing into period clothing. While looking at a Dutch Museum I came across this picture painted in 1682 by Thomas Heeremans [Dutch Painter, ca.1640-1697] It shows a scene of a port in 1682 (possibly a Dutch settlement in the New World somewhere). I have blown up sections of the picture for people to look at with regards to the clothing the sailors are wearing. There seems to be a mixture of short and long jackets and suprisingly most of the waistcoats seem to be short waist length ones rather than the thigh length ones we have come to associate with the era. There is also a mix of different types of hat with very few actual tricorns that I can see. Another interesting thing is the colors of the clothing.

I just found this picture of a russian medical chest from the late 17th century. It's probably not that relevant to pirates and ships but it does show how the bottles were sealed. Medicine Chest Russia, Late 17th century Bone, wood, brass and foil; carved and engraved. 23.5x24.5x23.5 cm Source of Entry: State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR, Leningrad. 1941

nope, not unless any crew members have particularly dainty hands Just done the rounds with Hogarth (well his book) and couldnt find any fingerless gloves in there either. I am sure i have seen fingerless gloves in a painting somewhere but the more i think about it the more i think that may have been from the victorian era.

This site seems to have fingerless gloves but they are womens from the 18th century. It doesnt specify when in the 18th century though: http://www.history.org/history/clothing/women/wglossary.cfm Theres also a couple of fingerless gloves on this page from around the late 17th early 18th Century: http://www.glovecollectioncatalogue.org/Spence-Collection-at-Bath-23390-23417 Obvioulsy neither of these sites have any specific sailors gloves and fingered gloves seem to be more popular.

That be very nice. Did you use a bought pattern or just make it yourself?

I'm waiting for my wife to learn to knit so she can make me the Gunnister Items

These are replicas of the gloves worn by a man pulled out of a peat bog in the shetlands dating from the early 18th century Knitted gloves, or rather gauntlets, (replicas) from among Gunnister man finds. The gloves are well knitted with sophisticated techniques. They are mainly knitted in stocking stitch, with patterning on the cuffs, and decorative arrows on the back of the hands.

They are very cool.

surely not worse than Pirates of Treasure Island. The acting was so bad in that I started to think i had downloaded a soft porn film by mistake

I'd go for the Clint Eastwood approach in the unforgiven and just go get a blunderbuss

It feels great. The weighting is spot on. Matt is selling them on his site here: http://www.baltimoreknife.com/cutlasses.htm

Judging from my attempts at shooting on the Wii over xmas I believe you are right ha ha.

Me and the wifes best friend with my as yet costume. I have the correct shoes but as this was just fancy dress I opted for the bucket boots

There you go