2006 ADDITIONS

Copyright © Malcolm Fare 2007-2010

Among the latest acquisitions are:
 
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  • Earliest known English foil with an unusually flexible flat blade made by Samuel Harvey of Birmingham, c. 1770

  • Early 18th century foil with a Solingen blade just 690 mm long, cut down and rebuttoned for a boy

  • Late 19th century Radaelli-style practice sword

  • French 1913 gilded bronze Monaco medal by Tony Szirmai

  • English 1847 silver singlestick medal by Reily & Storer

  • English Edwardian woman's one-piece fencing outfit

  • Late 19th century French duelling epee presented to Minister of War Maurice Berteaux by his fencing master Rue

  • Late 19th century bronze statuette of a foilist by Luca Madrassi, dedicated to A Peraqui and dated 1893

  • English watercolour - Fencers, 1981 - by Peter Unsworth