by Doug Nichols | Aug 13, 2020 | Artifact |
Plaque presented to Ferenc Marki upon his retirement. Maestro Ferenc Marki, originally from Hungary, taught in Italy and Brazil before settling in San Francisco. He assumed the post of head coach at the Pannonia Athletic Club after the passing of fellow Hungarian,...
by Doug Nichols | Aug 6, 2020 | Artifact |
First Prize trophy for the 1953 Halberstadt Sabre tournament. Han Halberstadt would customize a sabre each year for the annual sabre event with unique engraved plates and custom badges affixed to the guard. This one bears a tiny version of the enameled pin Hans...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 30, 2020 | Artifact |
Collector pin from 1978 Women’s Foil, Como, Italy. This Italian international women’s foil competition ran for decades at the Villa Olmo on the shores of Lake Como in Italy near the Swiss border. Looking at it using the 3D viewer in Google maps, Villa...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 23, 2020 | Artifact |
Shoulder patch for UC Santa Cruz. The sports teams at the University of California at Santa Cruz have an unusual mascot that can be used as a stumper question in trivia contests with excellent results in many parts of the country. Ariolimax californicus is a common...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 16, 2020 | Artifact |
A pair of 1950 Pacific Coast Championship medals. These two first place medals were won by Francis “Fran” Carter, who competed for the Halberstadt School of Fencing. In 1950, Fran won first place in both the Junior Women’s Individual and Team...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 9, 2020 | Artifact |
1935 medal from the Southern California division of the AFLA. An excellent example of hand engraving on the back of this medal. This was purchased from Ebay along with a number of Ralph Faulkner medals. Presumably this was one of his, as well. The pantograph, a...
