by Doug Nichols | May 9, 2019 | Artifact |
Believed to be a Participant’s Medal from the 1929 European Military Championships, held in Budapest, Hungary. The sabre event was won by Hungarian Jekelfalussy Piller György and was the beginning of his four-year domination of sabre. He won the 1930 and 1931 World...
by Doug Nichols | May 2, 2019 | Artifact |
This trophy was awarded during the first full year of operation of the San Francisco School of Fencing, later re-named the San Francisco Sports Academy. SFSF was founded by John McDougall in 1958 and lasted until 1962 . Besides John, other fencing teachers at this...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 25, 2019 | Artifact |
The Salle Mori Junior Foil Championship Trophy, 1955. Torao Mori took over the Joseph Vince Studio upon Vince’s retirement and renamed it Salle Mori. Won by Clifford Ichiyasu, it seems this trophy was awarded only the one year. This trophy came to the Archive as...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 18, 2019 | Artifact |
The Halberstadt Sabre Trophy of 1950. Each year for this event Hans Halberstadt would create a unique sabre guard with an engraved plaque, sometimes two plaques, on the guard. This sabre was won in 1950 by Gerard Biagini and was part of the Charles Selberg...
by Doug Nichols | Apr 11, 2019 | Artifact |
AFLA medal won by Ralph Faulkner in 1929. Senior Men’s Foils, 1st Place. Part of a large collection of Faulkner medals purchased on Ebay.
by Doug Nichols | Apr 4, 2019 | Artifact |
Singlestick Mask Singlestick was a sport for stick fighting sometimes referred to as cudgel-fighting. It was briefly an Olympic event, appearing only at the St. Louis Olympics in 1904 but was already declining in popularity at that time. This mask is from the...
