by Doug Nichols | Apr 27, 2020 | Blog Post |
This story began with a listing on Ebay. It was a photograph of a young woman in fencing garb, back hand on her hip and sword arm raised in a prime parry. Nice classical form, but nothing much to inspire a purchase. The listing read, “1929 Press Photo Jeanne...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 23, 2020 | Artifact |
First Place medal from the 1951 Pacific Coast Championships. Fran Carter won the Women’s Intermediate Foil contest in 1951, representing the Halberstadt School of Fencing.
by Doug Nichols | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Funke, Erich, Halberstadt, Hans, Mayer, Helene |
After spending the better part of this week running down stories that haven’t yet fully revealed themselves, I thought I’d revisit one of my many favorite subjects: Helene Mayer. There are a lot of photographs of Ms. Mayer out there, but several of the...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 16, 2020 | Artifact |
Two small medallions from Hans Halberstadt. These medallions doubled as medals or as decorations for the various designs Hans used for the Halberstadt Sabre annual trophies. There is nothing on the back of either of these to indicate how they were awarded, or if...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 13, 2020 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches A - E, Coaches K - O, Coaches P - T, D'Asaro, Michael, McDougall, John, Nottingham, Jack, Selberg, Charles |
Some time back, I wrote a story about Boffers: (Boffing Article!) Designed by fencer/coach Jack Nottingham, they were the Rolls-Royce of polyethylene toy swords. They could be found for sale via mail order from the Whole Earth Catalog, the 1960s version of Google,...
