06-07-2007, 09:23 AM
Hi!
In fact this pugio blade is quite "standard". In most cases where you see such a blade in a museum or on the net, you see a pic of a blade that was restored before say, 1985. Conservation methods since then drastically improved, resp. the better conservation methods were now used everywhere. Earlier methods covered the blades e.g. with wax, which gives them a brown appearance and completely covers these different shades of metal, resp. the "forge welding". Always remember how Iron objects look, when they come out of the ground.
In fact this pugio blade is quite "standard". In most cases where you see such a blade in a museum or on the net, you see a pic of a blade that was restored before say, 1985. Conservation methods since then drastically improved, resp. the better conservation methods were now used everywhere. Earlier methods covered the blades e.g. with wax, which gives them a brown appearance and completely covers these different shades of metal, resp. the "forge welding". Always remember how Iron objects look, when they come out of the ground.
Christian K.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
