Grymm

Oooooh a project ... Interesting Start now and work back, TV and film, what's the earliest Pirate Movie are they and all those naff Victorian prints of pirates Popular or even crap novels, does treasure Island contain any descriptions of patched pirates or one eyed pirates off to the bookshelf

1540's

Robbing the rich and giving to it the barmaid ... in exchange for beer and or a knee trembler behind the jakes.

Even raiding fishing fleets and robbing the fishermen of their hard earned catch when times got hard ...

Like it says on the tin, a trick knife, bit like the comedy arrow through the head, from the 1700's http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/collections/objects-in-3d/blades/trick-knife

Give them another go, they do work, eventually. They were originally uploaded straight to Dave's farcebook and had to buggered about with to get them onto Tudorcook's site so they fail randomly, heigh ho modern technologie for you =o/

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovich sort of Harry Potter meets The Sweeney(Or Starsky and Hutch) and lined up next Jasper Fford's Eyre Affair.

Not bad for sugar paste marzipan and goldleaf =o) The barrel 'liner' is.....sorry was a roll of vellum with a couple of layers of linen threadwound over the top.

Test 1 powder no wadding http://www.tudorcook...?g2_itemId=4221 Test2 Powder and wadding *note this clip can be tempremental and switch off before the bang but give it enough goes and eventually it works http://www.tudorcook...?g2_itemId=4225 Test3 bit more powder wadded hard http://www.tudorcook...?g2_itemId=4229

Yup =o) Yuca and Yucca are not the same plant though, Yuca is cassava/manioc etc and Yucca is the spikey ornamental plant

Not piraty but a Hungarian Hussar from 1710 and two(Venetian) gentlemen of the same period painted by Luca Carlevarijs and from the V&A website

Vertical striped stockings are in fashion for the Macaroni/Incroyable types at the end of the 18thC Prob'ly frame knitted and silk as these chaps are Dandies.. The 'motley' as worn by landsknecht types in the 16thc, like this blokey doing nasty things to St Catherine here is made of bias cut cloth sewn together and a right pain to do and to get it to fit closely to the leg, especially with knackered steel pinned ankles like mine. =o) You do get hoops on some fancy boothose from the early 17thC (1640's) And the hooped pair here are 1860s But as yet I've not found any for the late 17th or early 18thC

From the Royal Naval Museum http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheet_ship_biscuit.htm THE NAVAL "HARD TACK" There has always been a need for nutritious, easy to store, easy to carry and long-lasting foods in the Royal Navy. Nuts, fruits, vegetables, live game and fish fulfilled a limited role, but the introduction of cooking and baking various cereals provided a more reliable source of food for travellers, especially at sea. Egyptian sailors carried a flat brittle loaf of maize bread called dhourra cake. The Romans had a biscuit called buccellum King Richard I (Lionheart) left for the Third Crusade (1189-92) with “biskit of muslin” - mixed corn compound of barley, rye and bean flour. At the time of the Armada in 1588, the daily allowance on board ship was 1lb of biscuit plus 1 gallon of beer. It was Samuel Pepys in 1667 who first regularised naval victualling with varied and nutritious rations. Biscuits remained an important part of the sailor’s diet until the introduction of canned foods and bread. Preserved beef in tins was officially introduced in 1847, although tinned items had previously been used in arctic exploration. Canned meat was first marketed in 1813. In the mid-1850s with improved design and new baking equipment, it became possible to bake bread on board ship. Biscuits have always been made to a large and varied recipes e.g. seed biscuits, fruit biscuits, long biscuits etc. The essential and common ingredients were flour and water, Most flour used today is milled from North American wheat or similar hard grain cereals. It would be difficult to produce an historically authentic biscuit from modern refined flour. Recipe To produce a similar plain ships biscuit, a medium coarse stone-ground wholemeal flour should be used. Add water to 1lb wholemeal flour and 1/4oz salt to make a stiff dough. Leave for 1/2 hour and then roll out very thickly. Separate in to 5 or 7 biscuits. Bake in a hot oven approx. 420 degrees F for 30 minutes. The biscuits should then be left undisturbed in a warm dry atmosphere to harden and dry out. Biscuits are still purchased for the Ministry of Defence for use in operational ration packs but not for general messing. © Royal Naval Museum Library, 2000

It always works for Bond or the chap from Die Hard and numerous other'anti hero types' or dare I say it various western 'anti terrorist' organisations, you just have to make sure the torturees are nastier than the tortureres or have done REALLY naughty things.

That reminds me, must plunder UKPB board for all useful links 'case it goes off again, it'll get renamed HMS Brigadoon if it pulls the disappear reappear thing too many times.

Just me showing off, but I recently took delivery of this wee beauty It's an 18thC pipesmokers multitool, the blade for cutting your baccy from the block/roll, the back of the blade is tempered to work as a steel for striking sparks(and it does work well =o) the croc's nose is a tamper, the handle has a reamer which folds out to become the arm of some ember tongs. Based on a silver original from this book Thing of beauty so it is .....apologies for gloating but it's soooooooooooooooo purdy!

It's more Troost, so Netherlands 1730s. Now for something completely different, see Missy's hat? Well look closely at the lefthand side Summat holding the brim up, a string or twisted straw cordage methinks and before you go HAHA straw tricorn.....It's 1630s Spanish =op Loving the bag too, Mem Sahib picked up a virtually identical bag from Camden Market about 6-7years ago, It'After years of service itneeded some serious patching and since been relegated to peg bag for the laundry.

A young naked Michelle Pfeiffer being 'wet cupped' whilst pinned down by nuns..............

You are not saying that no other woolen style were used than PTGs? yes? I wonder what many " wool" caps mentioned in period description are Classic Monmouths, PTGs or something else( likely all of these). hmmm.... one Interesting quote from 1699 slop shop's inventory and it reflects sailors headwear quite well "36 capps of severall sorts" ... And Grymm I know that that there is only one genuine Monmouth. I think that there's as many types of knitted caps as there were knitters. The is it a Monmouth or a PtG is a modern view/arguement, we digital age types(20th/21stC people) love to put things in 'boxes' nearly as much as we love a creation myth (Taters were introduced by ****on this date etc), both make for good books and telly, but the reality is usually far more blurred and confused.

THE Monmouth Cap from Monmouth Museum and the one virtually all repros are based on

Kicks in around 05.45 with the odd interruption from other character cut scenes, you'll have to go to youtube to watch it as embedding is disabled. With the added bonus for Mission of some bleeding and cupping scenes for him to scream NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! at. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EK5wy37FII&feature=relmfu

Makes me laugh, the end of an evening of serious boozing at One's club =o) a link coz the board doesn't support the image code http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:MAU01:0190&role=image&size=largest Drunk bloke copping a feel, slanging match at the taxi rank.......

Similar titfers seem to be a Cloggy thing, especially religeous types in the first half of the 18thC, according to Troost at least. The image code for these pics makes the board throw a hissy fit (I'm not having THAT here) so I'll do them as links At the back of the crowd next to the building watching the raggedy man speaking http://resolver.kb.n...0193&size=large Sat in black under the mooning arse http://www.rijksmuse...sp?id=SK-A-4089 Characters from a Dutch play http://resolver.kb.n...0180&size=large Ditto http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=urn:gvn:MAU01:0181&size=large Different play this time it's Doctors and 'piss tasters' http://resolver.kb.n...0191&size=large All 1730s and early 40s by Cornelis Troost, The Netherlands version of Hogarth.

http://www.bikkelenbeen.com/nl/producten/Categorie/Brilmonturen+I/Veerbril+blond+hoorn/?artikelnummer=011&pagina=1 Makers of horn spec frames, technically they's muddyevil but.......

If the lady is wearing Riding Habit then there's a chance it's a masculine style of hat ..... I really hate giving a definative when it concerns historical styles but if you mean like this folding 'Chapeau Bras' Or this rigid 'Bicorne' Prob'ly not (Never say never though) Cocked hats with a short high front cock and fantail like matey on the left Is a poss, although more common towards the end of the 18thC it's just another way of cocking a hat and ent far off this one wot SB1700 nailed up There's always 'regional styles' to take into consideration, Spanish officers hat ent a million miles from the modern Spanish Plod dress hats. All that plus artistic licence/interpretation and the limitations/skill of the artist aside my vote is for badly drawn cocked hat.