by Doug Nichols | Jun 18, 2020 | Artifact |
1978 US National Championship Women’s Foil trophy sword. Presented to the winner, Gay D’Asaro. I don’t know if the Aldo Nadi Memorial was a commonly used name for the US women’s foil title or if this was unique to 1978. The overall length if...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 15, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches K - O, McDougall, John, Nadi, Aldo |
If I don’t write something about Aldo Nadi for too long, I get this annoying twitch in my eye that will only begin to calm down with a collection of images and some quality time with my laptop. Buckle up! Some time back, I published a four-part series about a...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 11, 2020 | Artifact |
Fran Carter’s 4th Place medal, 1956 Helene Mayer. Fran’s married name in 1956 was Matthies. Mounted on a felted cardboard backing. The three who finished ahead of Fran at the 3rd running of the Helene Mayer Memorial Women’s Foil were Janice Lee...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches U - Z, Vince, Joseph |
It was graduation week for my schooled-by-Zoom High School Senior son this week, so I thought I’d put together an album of the best of the magazine covers featuring fencing from the Archive collection. I thought I’d go from most recent to oldest, so the...
by Doug Nichols | Jun 4, 2020 | Artifact |
Another from the Archive’s collection of Ralph Faulkner medals. This 1930 Open Foils gold medal with engraving on the back is one of over a dozen Faulkner medals found by pure luck on Ebay. It’s thought to have been part of a smash-and-grab theft that...
