Auerberg sheath and pugio

[le Cavalier Invisible]

Wow! hock: 8) ) wink:

[Marcus Mummius]

That's incredible Luc. I'm afraid I will have to avoid visiting the musem were it will be displayed, as I won't trust myself in it's presence. It will whisper to me... Urge me to take it and run like hell...

[Virilis]

Luc, I have no words, laudes hock: !!

[Titus Aetius]

hock: but Peroni's smiley is much more appropriate
I can't add any more superlatives than the people before me did.
In Dutch I would say "Hij is echt áf". Laudes!!!

[Crispvs]

Luc,

I am truly sorry to have been away from RAT for the last week or two and missed this until now!

You have done a magnificent job and should be very proud of your achievement. I would be a very happy man if I could do as well and I am a very happy man already for seeing it and knowing that it will help to educate people.

A laud point from me is very richly deserved.

Crispvs

[PhilusEstilius]

Luc. I have to say that in the last 30 years I have made many daggers, swords, and much Roman equipment, after seeing all those wonderfull pictures of your Pugio the only word to say is Excellent.

[PhilusEstilius]

Luc. I would be very interested to know just how you did the etching on the scabbard decoration for it looks so uniform and neat, also what have you used for the red inlays in both the scabbard and the dagger.

[LVCIVS VVLPES]

Thanks for the appreciation for my work :oops: , it's the result of years studying and handling original pugio and sheaths, in 8 different countrys, exept for the UK.

Brain,
there is no etching on the scabbard, the decoration is done with gravers and punches and patience, I have no pictures of this plate in progress, but here I have a picture of a merovingian shoe buckle counterplate, the lenght is 38 mm, and I am inlaying a double wire with a punch and hammer,



I found this one of the Xanten plate in progress



hope this will help you a bit


the red inlay is enamel


Cheers

Luc

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

To use that overly overused word! Awesome! 8)

[PhilusEstilius]

Luc. Thank you for the extra pictures of your work indeed over the years people have said to me that they consider I must have patience, all I can say is you most certainly do have and it shows in what I would call beautiful work.
I have to say that I have never used gravers but then most of my work over the years has been much more wide and varied covering everything from helmet all the way down to caligae. I do have to say that I love Roman artwork and repouss'e is my speciality not just with hammers and punches but by hand working in fine metals such as silver and gold.

Here is a link to one of the many Roman dishes I have done, this is a one from Berthouville in France that I have done in silver and gold.

http://www.northumberland-computers.com/sextima/2.jpg

The legend around the edge reads "DEO MERC(URIO) IUL(ia) SIBYLLA D(E) S(uo) D(ono) D(AT)"
Julia Sibylla gives this to the god Mercury out of her own resources

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

That is nice work Brian. Is it a dish, It almost look like a phalerae!
Both of you gents do amazing work! I can only dream.

[PhilusEstilius]

Byron. It is indeed a dish that was found in a Roman temple at Berthouville in France, it was donated to the god Mercury by a woman called Julia Sibylla. The God Mercury was an interesting god he is considered the god of Merchants and even the god of thieves.
The dish is only 98mm diameter 4 inchs approx'. What I like to think about this dish is that the woman Julia was maybe the wife of a merchant who went off on a business venture, and she donated this to the God of Merchants in the hope that her husband would have a safe and good business trip, Just a thought !!

[Lucius Petilius Remo]

I am dumbfounded, it is splendid!!!! bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!