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Offline Rogerc

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Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
« 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/

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Offline Romark

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Re: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
« Reply #1 on: 03 September 2020, 09:58:41 PM »
Nice post Roger,lots of interesting items shown in the blog 👍


Offline OB

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Re: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
« Reply #2 on: 04 September 2020, 12:49:33 AM »
Indeed yes.  You might think the armour above would stop a bullet.

Offline Atheling

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Re: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
« Reply #3 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.


Offline Rogerc

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Re: Chillingham Castle and Colonial Militaria
« Reply #4 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.

 

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