Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Sword (with Ivory hilt). Carried by Sir Colin Campbell. Commander-in- Chief in India in the Indian Military.
Sword (with Ivory hilt). Carried by Sir Colin Campbell. Commander-in- Chief in India in the Indian Military.
Ceremonial sword of King Stanisław August Poniatowski
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Ceremonial sword of King Stanisław August Poniatowski, made in Warsaw, ca. 1764. Displayed in the Royal Chapel at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
Ceremonial sword of King Stanisław August Poniatowski, made in Warsaw, ca. 1764. Displayed in the Royal Chapel at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
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The Isle of Man's Sword of State
The Sword of State is hugely important to the Isle of Man, it is a symbol that Tynwald is the oldest continuous parliament in the World.
It depicts the Manx national symbol, the three legs of Man and despite various upgrades over the centuries, probably has its origins in the 1400s.
The sword is one of the earliest objects to associate the symbol of the three legs with the Isle of Man.
Wyatt Earp's pistol, left behind in Juneau, Alaska
Wyatt Earp | |
Born | March 19, 1848(1848-03-19) Monmouth, Illinois, U.S.A. |
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Died | January 13, 1929(1929-01-13) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. |
Occupation | Gambler, Lawman, Saloon Keeper, Gold/Copper Miner |
The 6.5 mm Carcano rifle owned by Lee Harvey Oswald
In March 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, alias "A. Hidell", purchased a 6.5 mm Carcano rifle (also improperly called Mannlicher-Carcano) by mail order. He also purchased a revolver by the same method. It is officially accepted that this was the rifle that was used in the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas to assassinate United States President John F. Kennedy as his motorcade drove by on November 22, 1963. Photographs of Oswald holding the rifle, a palmprint found upon examination of the rifle, and detective work tracing its sale, all eventually led to Oswald.
Deringers:The pocket pistol used by John Wilkes Booth in the Abraham Lincoln Assassination.
Because of their small size and easy availability, Deringers sometimes had the dubious reputation of being a favored tool of assassins. The single most famous Deringer used for this purpose was fired by John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Booth's Deringer was unusual in that the rifling twisted counterclockwise (left-handed twist), rather than the typical clockwise twist used on most Philadelphia Deringers.
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