Tall Paul

Thanks for the info,

looks like I will be making toggles tonight.

I am in the process of making the pirate flag for my group, the Colchester Historical enactment society (C.H.E.S.) (See picture.

I remember from my cubscout days that flags were attached to the host line with a loop and a toggle.

But for the life of me, I cannot remember if the loop was at the top of the flag, and the toggle was at the bottom.

Or is the Toggle at the top, and the loop at the bottom?

Can Anyone please help?

I have Just finished the artwork for the C.H.E.S (Thats Colchester Historical Enactment Society) Flag, Prior to beggining construction, so I decided to post it to see what you guys thought.

The Image of the skull, and the design of the wings is taken from period Gravestones and woodcuts, the cutlases were also based on early 18th century artwork.

Oooo! The figure in the foreground on the floor is a woman wearing a mantua!

Any chance of a date or atribution on the bottom one?

Thanks Paul!

Unfortunately, the Book that I found this picture in has no picture credits.

It is taken from

1700 scenes from london life,

by Maureen Waller,

So it is a safe bet that it is from the turn of the 17th-18th Century, from the mens costume I would guess last part of the 17th Century.

Perhaps you could email the British Museum, I have taken a quick look at the BM website, but as it is not possible to sort their collections by year, I had no luck.

I can send a bigger resolution copy of this scan to anyone who is interested.

I have been asked to come up with a list of Pirate movies available on DVD here in the UK as part of a promotional event that we are doing for the DVD release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, for our local HMV store.

Whilst reserching, I found this film, Due out on DVD in England on 27th of November.

Pirates of Treasure Island, Starring Lance Henriksen as Long John Silver.

This title seems to be getting a very low key relese, which is seldom a good sign, so I was wandering if anyone had seen this movie, and if it was worth spending my hard earned cash on.

As usual, I find myself arriving late to this party, however I recently found these pictures whilst researching taverns.

I hope that they help.

And

Everyone rates English Flints very high indeed, and nearly all of the Ammerican gun sellers supply them.

However this is small comfort to me as I live in England.

Can anyone tell me who makes/supplies english flints here in the UK?

When you do leave the country, would you be kind enough to take a great coat pattern with you.

Hi Kass,

If you Haven't already left your shores, could you also put one of each into the bag for me also.

Ahoy, William,

I don't PM you, 'cause it could be also from interest for other people interested overseas.

How much would be the shipping to Europe (in my case: to Germany)?

Do you accept Paypal? My bank charges me 15.- EUR for a cheque which I have then to send for another 3.50.- to the States.

Is there a cheaper and easier way?

Tally Ho,

Jack

Like Capt JackRussel, I am VERY interested in buying a set.

How much is the postage to the United Kingdom?

Also, from my point of view, Paypal is probably the best way for me to make a payment to anybody in the United States, the bank charges for drawing a Dollar Cheque against a sterling account, is more than the cost of the plans. Do you accept payment by paypal?

Do you have a website that you use to sell these items? If you do, could you post the link here?

The prussian/potzdam model. I'll post a picture of it compared to a modern pistol shortly.

PS -- it's for sale here. :)

http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?...p?Item=57350569

Ah, Well,

There's your problem.

The Potzdam Pistol was noted for being one of the Biggest pistols around at the time.

I think that it would be a terrible shame to cut it down.

Nice picture of a sea chest though.....

Finding Pirates, and pirate ships is the easy part, The problem comes because in order to get a balanced game you also need ships from Britain, Spain, and the other nationalites used in this game. For example, Commodore Sir William James (1720 – 16 December 1783) who, in 1755, whilst in command of the Protetor, attacked and destroyed the Pirate fortress on Severndroog Island.

OK, So this set does not exist, (Yet) But what about a set of Wizkids Pirates Constructible Strategy Game based on the ships of real pirates from the pages of history.

I was discussing the Bottom of the barrel scraping going on at Wizzkids with their latest Pirates CSG offerings, at the shop where I buy my cards, and they suggested a "Pirates of Infamy" Set.

This is one for the purists, and would contain Pirates and pirate hunters from history, and the ships in which they sailed.

The Flavour text would be a brief description of the history of the character or vessel.

As a game it would be no less valid than the existing sets, but it would have an additional educational edge.

And who wouldn't get a buzz from pitching Edward Teach (Blackbeard) aboard the Adventure against Lieutenant Maynard ? (By the way, anyone know the names of the sloops commanded by Maynard? I thought that they were the Ranger and the Jane, But the Wikkipedia has them listed as HMS Pearl & HMS Lyme.) Or from teaming up "Calico Jack" Rackham with Anne Bonny and Mary Reid?

It would be relatively easy to unearth the names of Spanish Treasure Galleons from the time, and The Names of vessels used by some of the more notorious Pirates are recorded by Capt., Johnson.

Perhaps we should make up our own list of Crew And Ships and petition Wizkids. I am sure that they would be up for the idea if they Didn’t have to do all that tedious research.

What ships and crew would you suggest for this new set? Remember, not just Pirates, but also vessels and men involved in conflicts with Pirates.

I would recommend drawing from a wider age of sail than the GAoP, say 1600 to 1850.

The Sextants are all Way too late for GAoP.

The OCTANT is still too late for golden Age, but not quite so bad.

I would be interested in buying a set of the DiVIDERS Though.

The COMPASS also looks interesting, but I do not know enough about 18th Century compasses to know if it were correct for GAoP, (Any thoughts Foxe?)

So Far, This astrolabe,

From THIS WEBSITE,

Looks about the best.

I would reccomend that anyone interested in early Navigational instruments gets this book.

LATITUDE HOOKS AND AZIMUTH RINGS

By Dennis Fisher

It has instructions for making and using 18 different navigational tools.

Oh? Is that it then? I see...

Hey Paul, as luck would have it, I've got this great Morticia gown!

Cara Mia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you Tango Too ???????

Oh, come on now folks, I can't be the only one here childish enough to derive great glee from making the Disney head talk dirty!

In fact, with a bit of phonetic sidestepping, I got it to recite the first verse of the bawdy song

"The Good Ship Venus"

This is so much fun!!!

Cheers, Hester

Sucking a dead mans Peanuts ????????? :angry:

Actually I think it may just be an optical illusion... Damn sure it can't have been that @#~*&?@$ +5*=}~/# %$&@~+#* musket!

Blaming the Musket Eh? Foxe?

If I remember rightly you couldn't get the cannon primer to light either.

I think that you are just an antidote to black powder.

By the way, As you may expect, the Blackbeard Drams got a pretty Damming review from Jamaca Rose, (Christine Lampe) on the latest Edition (May/June?) of No Quarter Given.

Ahoy Mates I Watched The BBC Blackbeard Drama Documentry About The Same Time As Sky 1s Showing In UK Far Far Better!

The Documentry has been discussed extensivly elswere in this forum, I downloaded the US version some time ago. The UK version appears to be a slightly different edit, complete with a new commentery.

Gone is the claim to be the most accurate and authenic account of blackbeard ever told. Wilst it is still not without mistakes, some off the worst errors have now been glossed over.

For heavens sake, They Havn't even got "Pirates of the Myserious Island" Into the shops yet!

(I do like the Idea of going "A Viking" though)

Hey Paul! I look forward to meeting you!

And I to meeting you too dear lady.

Therefore I find it impossible that the notoriously parsimonious Royal Navy would contract for biscuits comprised solely of white wheaten flour.  Somebody got an original contract/receipt?

I refer you to my previous post,

They were made from a mixture of Wheat Flour and Pea Flour, that is ground up dried peas. Although the use of pea flour was obviously for reasons of economy, it probably added valuable protein to the sailors diet. the cost was further reduced by adulterating the mixture with bone dust.

I did add about 2 tablespoons of oil for flakeyness

Adding oil or fat to the mixture is a modern "Cheat" to make the biscuits more edible. shortening was not used in the origional recipy, as this woul have compromised the long shelf life (Three years or more) of the ships biscuits.

Ships biscuits were "Thrice Cooked" to remove the last vestige of moisture from them. in modern terms, this equates to several hours in a medium oven.

Hello GoF,

We have several new members, so there should be one or two C.H.E.Sies coming along this year, myself included.

Thanks for the Sig Scrounger, As You Can see, I am wearing It with Pride

of the three pictures along the bottem of the page, the middle one, with the flat pommel and the long knuckle guard is probebly the best, although the shell is facing the wrong way for a GAoP Cutlass.

the shell should be curved over the handle to protect the back of the hand.

Perhaps if you asked them, they would make one with the shell facing the other way.

This pattern sword is quite a popular choice amongst UK pirate re-enactors.As a backup sword I use one very similar, but with a bigger shell, made by Bailiff Forge, who sadly no longer seem to be operaiting

As i mentioned before, the Mortury hilt and Proto Mortury hilt are also a popular choice because although they are slightly too early, they offer good hand protection.

The sword that they made for me, had the same blade as this, but the hilt was type "E", a simple shell guard and knuckle bow. they made two of these at my request.

If you dont mind me asking Rats, are you another British Pirate or are you looking to import the sword?

Armour Class are one of the best known Re-enactment Sword makers in the UK. Because of the robust style of fighting preferred by many British enactors, their weapons tend to be very ruggid and hard wearing, however they tend to be a little on the heavy side when compared with blades used for some forms of stage or display fighting.

I would be interested to learn more about the steel-on-steel techneques used by american re-enactors.

I hope that this helps.

"Tall Paul" Adams.