Badminton Library; Sword Fencing of 1893; A Fabulous Group of Eight Framed 19thC Photogravures of Fencing Positions antiques normally as a figure study

normally as a figure study for a work

The very rare and very large pair of carved and stained American redwood nineteenth century circus wagon carvings modelled as demonic busts having oversized features with large googly eyes

where they are depicted fighting

these examples being late 19thC

Badminton Library; Sword Fencing of 1893; A Fabulous Group of Eight Framed 19thC Photogravures of Fencing Positions antiques normally as a figure studyOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1893 In Frames: 8. 75 wide x 7. 25 high (each with one in portrait form) Hailing from The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes by Walter H. Pollock, E. B. Michell, and Walter Armstrong, and Published in 1893 in London, the group of eight photogravures, one being in portrait, the others in landscape form, each showing gentlemen in period fencing attire and marked with a fencing