Swashbuckler 1700

That post before can be deleted its stuff is now here! Sorry for multiple posting Here is Dutch picture (frontpiece of BoA from 1700) there is a slave with an earring (he seems to be African rather that indian) I believe that dutch were the biggets earring users since many pictures of Dutch and Dutch sailors show them. So small pearl earrings in Ducth use are not an errors but looking pirates there were only a few Dutch pirates but no really many. http://jcb.lunaimagi...~2&mi=26&trs=78And the new stuff now Well we know that earrings don’t jump out of English seaman's wills but has anyone studied any Dutch sailor wills? There might be some earrings....

I can imagine that later, well let say 23th century, historians and reenactor debating did “early 21th century historians use earrings” and the somebody says “ hey I found old photo of a historian with an earring!!!” then somedobey reply “but it was not the norm”….

And that makes me think that rarely slops would be really popular I mean like uniform (but of course they were used and sold).... old canvas would do for some clothing and old jacket or breeches could be patched...

Oh now I see what yo mean. Ahh how hard it is to "us", Members of the consumer society, to understand the times when all cloth was needed.

Out of sight, out of mind.... What do you mean by "recycled waistcoats"?

Matty -i know. they are good pictures so warm thanks to him for that . Foxe I know gunner is not part of IC but it shows that there were atleast blue weistcoats in English army. (but later gunner wore entirely blue coats so they were propably "more blue" in earlier time as well so not evidence for IC unifrom

About those green cuffs I see that also in elsewere in the web they has been wondered and I think that those green cuffs migth well be an error. Here: British uniforms employed in America during Queen's Anne War I think not much was changed after 1715 I Found on web and source is modern btw gunner has a blue weistcoat!

Nice early 18th C Russian uniforms and I think that those coats and hats are good looking. http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20090626/155327095_2.html

Sorry for multiple posts anyway I found this modern picture picture with the title Soldier of the British independent companies in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, between 1698 and 1717 I think in early 1700s those bajonets were changed to better ones but it seems to me that soldiers in many colonies were pretty similar if they were independent companies and this modern image has red waistcoat and I guess that that is the tricorn with that white piping so I finally understand what it means but here is said that there were green cuffs what ?????? http://www.cmhg.gc.c...asp?page_id=215

Oh and I said " I was skeptical " about Woodes' soldiers but now I ain't. I an well satisfied to that that there were red coated soldiers around colonies....

What was gaop era and EIC soldiers were there those hen ?

Well there were redcoats in caribbean colonies and actually in lesser antilles pirates were real treath. Blackbeard e.g from Repiblic of pirates web site " Blackbeard’s gang brought a wave of terror to the eastern Caribbean in late November and early December 1717, burning Guadeloupe town and most of the vessels at St. Kitts, and leaving the Governor of the British Leeward Islands terrified for his safety" and what ever Bart R did he (French governor hnged or not) he was a serious treat. Don't say that there were not indepentend companies in British Leevard islands (like Barbados what was huge colony with forts and all)?

That I have thought for a long time and that is why I was skeptical of that "Woodes's company" would be redcoats at all. What about the "wiki fact" (not too good ) that there were soldiers in ship that captured Rackham. And I think it is likely that uniformed soldiers of some sorts were present in executions of pirates (at least in London or ?). And what about navy marines and War of the Quadruple Alliance there might be marines in the navy there since war was on in America s well.....

Hey look here pictures of french soldiers in 1690s and see many has those shoulder things in BOTH sides e.g in 2.47

Too bad this has no colors but French marine circa 1718.

Had militia any kind of uniforms? ( were they same militia companies that were later called " minutemen"?) Now I can answer myself fhen read Us history adn I so no they were not same..

That explainss quite a bit. So it is just error but I wonder who id it?

Hmm rarely I see that patched clothing in movies (but sometimes yes) or well in reenactor use in photos, or in pirate book illustration. Sailors clothing should not be ragged like sometimes I see but more like patched.... but in any case the hard life etc should be visible in clothing as well.

I don't know what sd mean but I bet it doesn't mean Secure Digital ...... well it could mean "said". so I think it means " said Tailor" meaning Tailor which is already mentioned.

Does anyone still know was he one eyed or not?

well you are rigth indeed

hmmm quite true Well cocos has speard in caribbean because of the humans so it is not moved there naturally...

It seems that coconut trees were become so oldinary in West- Indies by 17th Century that they was as natural part of the Caribbean than indians were http://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/JCB~1~1~43~230235:-Du-cocos--?sort=Normalized_date%2CCreators%2CPublisher%2CTitle&qvq=q:cocos;sort:Normalized_date%2CCreators%2CPublisher%2CTitle;lc:JCB~1~1,JCBBOOKS~1~1,JCBMAPS~1~1,JCBMAPS~2~2&mi=6&trs=16 http://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/JCB~1~1~6276~9660004:-Du-Cocos,-&-du-Cacao--?sort=Normalized_date%2CCreators%2CPublisher%2CTitle&qvq=q:cocos;sort:Normalized_date%2CCreators%2CPublisher%2CTitle;lc:JCB~1~1,JCBBOOKS~1~1,JCBMAPS~1~1,JCBMAPS~2~2&mi=3&trs=16 and even botamy books of the period talk like they were popular in caribbean (with other palms) but they were not native in there (unlike over 3000 other palm species).

MadMike was making a silly film reference. (In Finnish... Monty Python Hullu Maailma... niellä ja kookos) Google translation rocks. Oh I am well aware of Monty Pyton that was a nice film.... and birds did it!

Well coconuts can go to island to other and since they can travel even in salty water. Also people have carried them so migrateindeed....