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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

iamafencer: Ilkka Hartikainen, Finland

iamafencer:

Ilkka Hartikainen, Finland

(Source: strongoftheblade, via tremblingcolors)

fortezafitnessandmartialarts: Actress/swordswoman Esme Beringer was one of the few fencers known to have studied with both Egerton Castle and Alfred Hutton, and possibly the only one of their students to perpetuate aspects of their approach to “ancient swordplay” into the 20th century. http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2013/02/the-swordswoman-esme-beringer/

fortezafitnessandmartialarts:

Actress/swordswoman Esme Beringer was one of the few fencers known to have studied with both Egerton Castle and Alfred Hutton, and possibly the only one of their students to perpetuate aspects of their approach to “ancient swordplay” into the 20th century.

http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2013/02/the-swordswoman-esme-beringer/

orvendr: iamafencer: Axel Pettersson and Anders Linnard of Gothenburg Historical Fencing School, Sweden.Photo: Catarina Frydberg Yes.

orvendr:

iamafencer:

Axel Pettersson and Anders Linnard of Gothenburg Historical Fencing School, Sweden.

Photo: Catarina Frydberg

Yes.

toanunnery: “Fencing in Female Physical Culture”

toanunnery:

“Fencing in Female Physical Culture”

toanunnery: Joanna De Tuscan - Detroit native, competitor in the 1936 Olympics

toanunnery:

Joanna De Tuscan - Detroit native, competitor in the 1936 Olympics

falsestuff:

Paukbrille

Academic fencing (German akademisches Fechten) or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student corporations (Studentenverbindungen) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and to a minor extent in Kosovo, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Flanders. It is a traditional, strictly regulated sword fight between two male members of different fraternities with sharp weapons. The German technical term Mensur (from Latin, dimension) in the 16th century referred to the specified distance between each of the fencers.

More fencing pictures from Germany.

More fencing pictures from Germany.

(Source: ironinomicon, via cercleproudhon)

(Source: fuchsenzeit)

http://www.swordforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=99529&d=1307716205

http://www.swordforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=99529&d=1307716205

(via fuchsenzeit)

German students fencing societies

German students fencing societies

(Source: fuchsenzeit)