modernfencing:

[ID: a multiple exposure of a foil salute. Old, black and white photo.]

steroge:

Foil Salute (Joe Levis), 1938 by Harold Edgerton

(FEROZ Galerie: Paris Photo Los Angeles)

art-of-swords:

Sword Fighting Manual

• Dated: circa 1500

Pages from a book from the State Library of Berlin.

Source: Retronaut

BAK Magazine 09

(Source: whatsstoppingyouhomie, via iamafencer)

(Source: iamafencer)

honour-or-death:

Épée Master - France, 1899.

Mensur

(Source: fuchsenzeit, via iamafencer)

Mensur

(Source: fuchsenzeit, via iamafencer)

mudwerks:

“Heidelberg. Ein Gruß von der Hirschgasse. Kurz vor der Mensur.” (by drakegoodman)

Printed on reverse: “Heidelberg. Ein Gruß von der Hirschgasse. Kurz vor der Mensur.”

Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student fraternities (Studentenverbindungen) in Germany. A facial scar resulting from a strike is called a Schmiß and was seen as a badge of honour, especially in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th.

(via iamafencer)

Sabre Cuts

(Source: iamafencer)

iamafencer:

http://www.alaux-fencingmaster.com

sweet-savage:

Andreas Feininger - Portrait of Fencer Wearing Sabre Mask

(Source: lowerthanhades, via iamafencer)

thebrokenwindowtheory:

En Guard

(via art-of-swords)

“Marinetti fighting a duel with the journalist Carlo Chiminelli in Rome, 30th April 1924: he was wounded.”

(Source: zentropista, via iamafencer)

art-of-swords:

Rapier

• Date: ca. 1650
• Culture: Italian
• Classification: Swords
• Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1904

Source: © 2000–2012 The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All rights reserved.

savage-america:

thegildedcentury:

Amazing Stories, October, 1936

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