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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Rogerc on 03 September 2020, 07:09:47 PM

Title: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
Post by: Rogerc on 03 September 2020, 07:09:47 PM

I paid a vist to Chillingham Castle a couple of weeks ago, the owner collects Militaria from all over the world and much of the main hall is filled wiht Indian weapons and aemour, I thought I might share some of the more apporpriate stuff with you good folks, images on the blog.

http://gapagnw.blogspot.com/

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50302457252_a4ccddce82_w.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jD4f2J)3 mirrors (https://flic.kr/p/2jD4f2J) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
Post by: Romark on 03 September 2020, 09:58:41 PM

Nice post Roger,lots of interesting items shown in the blog 👍

Title: Re: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
Post by: OB on 04 September 2020, 12:49:33 AM

Indeed yes.  You might think the armour above would stop a bullet.

Title: Re: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
Post by: Atheling on 04 September 2020, 10:28:58 AM

What a find!  8)

I've bookmarked the page so I can take a look through over the weekend.

Title: Re: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
Post by: Rogerc on 04 September 2020, 11:04:52 PM

Its the oddest lace, when last I went the ladies workign there had no idea what anythign was, one lady caught me looking at a double handed lanschnect sword and told me she thought it was a cavlary sword. Oh dear. Really interesting.