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Quote:This Project has now ended with a very pleasing result, i think.
Oh my word! Did you make this??? :o
Can't
WAIT for my project to be finished then!!! :woot:
Moi Watson
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:grin: No, only the blade. I got word, that XorX is the best blacksmith out there. So I let him forge the blade. The rest was made by Erik König (replik-online.de)
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Ah...scabbard being made by someone else, but XorX making the blade
Moi Watson
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That is correct! :-)
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I am led to believe the plates disappeared in the later period, with certain elements on the scabbards as well. The swords evolved apparently while still being in use.
It's still a great sword though!
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Yes, those heavily platetd scabbards, some of them with silver or even golden elements, are tipically used in the first half of the 1. century. Later gladii of type Pompeii are mostly not that sophisticated. But you know every legionary could order a scabbard of his own when he had the money to do so. Gladii weren't produced in large scale like modern firearms. The legoinaries had to pay them with their own money and coukd therefor enrich the scabbards artistically as they wished. The more expensive the scabbard the higher the recruite's rank. Threfor they were mostly ordered by officers like centurions.
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Yes, I was refering to the guard plates though, not the scabbard plates.
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
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