Replica Diplomas?

[Spedius]

Ave!

You can buy replica helmets, armour and swords but can you buy replica diplomas?

The answer is probably not.

If the various manufactures of the numerous items now available to the growing numbers of re-enactors could be made aware of this gap in their inventory would they provide them?

A pair of 6" x 4" bronze tablets custom inscribed to your own specifications could be a possiblity, couldn't it?

Who knows, in another 2,000 years, perhaps our ancestors may dig them up and regard them as a mystery to be unravelled?

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M. Spedius Corbulo

[Caius Fabius]

I had one done at a local trophy shop, you tell them what you want,k they engrave it on "bronze plate" and there is your diploma. I doubt I could have some India company do it cheaper once you figure in the postage, and each one should be unique.

[Peroni]

Terry Nix has one..

http://www.niximperial.com/nixp09h.html

regards,

[Spedius]

I had one done at a local trophy shop, you tell them what you want,k they engrave it on "bronze plate" and there is your diploma. I doubt I could have some India company do it cheaper once you figure in the postage, and each one should be unique.

Ave Caius Fabius,

Thank you for your message.

Do you have any pictures of your "bronze plate"?

I would dearly enjoy seeing the images.

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M. Spedius Corbulo

[Spedius]

Terry Nix has one..
http://www.niximperial.com/nixp09h.html
regards,

Ave Peroni,

Thank you for the link.

It's nice to be proved wrong, in this instance.

How are things with you, keeping busy?

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M. Spedius Corbulo

[Tarbicus]

Sadly no diplomas, but worth posting anyway if you become interested in letters and curse tablets:
Ars Romana

[Spedius]

Sadly no diplomas, but worth posting anyway if you become interested in letters and curse tablets:
Ars Romana

Ave Tarbicus,

Thank you for the link, as you rightly stated, no diplomas, but useful all the same.

Have you been up to anything interesting?

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M. Spedius Corbulo

[Tarbicus]

Hi Spedius,

Bought some fine Italian wool fabric for experimenting with tunic pleats, and have a massive piece of linen which I think I should make a subarmalis from. Aside from that, I'm looking at this shoe (the enclosed top one) and eyeing up the leather I have, especially after Martin's fantastic How To on caligae...

[url:7ece57j0]http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/piclib/pages/bigpicture.asp?id=339[/url]

[Spedius]

Hi Spedius,
Bought some fine Italian wool fabric for experimenting with tunic pleats, and have a massive piece of linen which I think I should make a subarmalis from. Aside from that, I'm looking at this shoe (the enclosed top one) and eyeing up the leather I have, especially after Martin's fantastic How To on caligae...
[url:ucnrb3cd]http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/piclib/pages/bigpicture.asp?id=339[/url]

Ave Tarbicus,

Was it Caesar or Marius who added a heel to the caligae? This was all about the marching posture and angles of the foot?

They were studded too, weren't they? Were the studs arranged into any uniform pattern as a form of unit identification?

Back in my youth, I spent seven years in the Welsh Guards and IIRC, we had a distinctive stud arrangement pattern which was unique to our regiment.

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M. Spedius Corbulo