by Doug Nichols | Mar 5, 2020 | Artifact |
From the Colonel Laurance Brownlee collection. This undated medal has a pin-back for wearing on your lapel or pinning on a fencing jacket.
by Doug Nichols | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans |
While I continue with my task at hand, scanning the newly donated Hans Halberstadt scrapbooks, I couldn’t help but take a little time to put together a collection of the comics Hans pasted inside the pages of his information-dense collection of ephemera. The...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 27, 2020 | Artifact |
Another trio of medals from the collection of Colonel Laurance Brownlee. This group of gold, silver and bronze medals date from the 1969-1970 season for the Nor Cal Division of the (then) AFLA. Curiously, they are all for the same event. I suspect these may have...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, Coaches U - Z, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene, McDougall, John, Piller, George, Selberg, Charles, Uyttenhove, Henri, Visconti, Edward |
A recent gift to the Archive has me dumbfounded. It’s existence was something I had speculated about in a vague way, but never dreamed of finding proof for. Much less, having the proof come directly to me as a donation to the Archive. Yet here we are. Tucked...
by Doug Nichols | Feb 20, 2020 | Artifact |
A trio of medals, gold, silver and bronze from the Colonel Laurance Brownlee collection. From the 1960-61 season, these medals were issued by the Northern California Division of the AFLA. Colonel Brownlee won bronze in Open Foil Team, silver in Group 3 epee and gold...
