by Doug Nichols | Nov 7, 2019 | Artifact |
Women’s Team Foil National Championship medals. The San Jose State Spartans Women’s Foil Team won the US National Team title 3 times in a row; 1975, 1976 and 1977. (With the caveat that non-SJSU student Harriet King was on the first of those...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 24, 2019 | Artifact |
1971 Western Intercollegiate Foil Trophy. From the Ferenc Marki collection, this trophy was won by the San Francisco State Men’s Foil team. No names on the trophy, unfortunately.
by Doug Nichols | Oct 10, 2019 | Artifact |
The San Francisco Piller Memorial medal, presented to Colonel Laurance H. Brownlee. Depending on the year, given out to the top three finalists, all the finalists, or just first place. This one is unique, having the dedication plaque shown below mounted on the...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 3, 2019 | Artifact |
1964 North Dakota Women’s Foil trophy. This is from the collection of Charles and Julie Selberg and was once displayed inside Charlie’s Salle in the Woods. My guess is that it was won by Julie, not too long before she moved to San Francisco. But the...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 26, 2019 | Artifact |
Hungarian scoring machine for foil and epee disguised as a telephone. This curious piece is from the collection of material donated to the Archive by Maestro Ferenc Marki’s family. It appears to be a working scoring device although I haven’t attempted to...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 19, 2019 | Artifact |
Patch for John McKee’s Cavaliers club from Southern California. The patches for this club had a number of iterations. According to McKee’s notes, this was patch #8 and was used from 1951 through 1975.
