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felt like posting something non-furry related.
So yes I am actually a great fan of classic Whodunits and crime history. And while I cannot claim to be a real collector by lack of space and money, I am always happy to find something nice when I travel around in Europe.
So, here is my little collection of possible murder weapons of the final 19th century.
- 9mm drum revolver. Lefaucheux (?), Belgium, ca. 1870.
- Two razors. England, ca. 1900. Inscription at one blade: „Nulli Secundus“.
- Poison bottle. Southern Germany, ca. 1880.
- Arsenic ampoule. Southern Germany, ca. 1900.
- Brass knuckles. USA, ca. 1900.
- Poison ring. Chzech, replica in the style of 16th century.
- Filet knife. Sheffield, ca. 1900.
- Pocket knife type „Barlow“. Sheffield, England, ca. 1880.
- Police pipe. Southern Germany, 1. Half 20th century.
So yes I am actually a great fan of classic Whodunits and crime history. And while I cannot claim to be a real collector by lack of space and money, I am always happy to find something nice when I travel around in Europe.
So, here is my little collection of possible murder weapons of the final 19th century.
- 9mm drum revolver. Lefaucheux (?), Belgium, ca. 1870.
- Two razors. England, ca. 1900. Inscription at one blade: „Nulli Secundus“.
- Poison bottle. Southern Germany, ca. 1880.
- Arsenic ampoule. Southern Germany, ca. 1900.
- Brass knuckles. USA, ca. 1900.
- Poison ring. Chzech, replica in the style of 16th century.
- Filet knife. Sheffield, ca. 1900.
- Pocket knife type „Barlow“. Sheffield, England, ca. 1880.
- Police pipe. Southern Germany, 1. Half 20th century.
Category Photography / Still Life
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It'd be interesting if those old two cut-throat razors had colorful backstories, but it more likely the owners just used them for grooming, not crime. I know old time British gangsters, with very limited access to guns, and a culture that frowned on using them, carried straight razors as weapons. For an example, watch the 1949 version of BRIGHTON ROCK, the scene at the race track, where rival thugs whip out their razors and try to give each other a "Permanent Shave". Harlem Sunsets, anyone?
Good grief- Looks like you broke out the time machine, voyaged back to Paris of the Belle Epoque, had a run-in with an Apache at the Moulin Rouge (you wanted to meet La Goulue ), clobbered him, and brought his arsenal back with you to the Here and Now as booty. (And here, play Offenbach's "La Papillon", which Americans used to know as "The Apache Dance").
https://legaucherdotorg.files.wordp.....-296x465-1.jpg
I am very astonished that someone outside the Old Continent ever heard of the "Apaches" of Montmartre - most people around here knows them. They are a bit comparable to the Hells Kitchen in New York... I am glad you approove this collection and enjoy.
Speaking of clubbering, myself a hundred years ago would have been this chap, respectively he would have been my brother.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/r7YA.....WU/s-l1600.jpg
I guess he had no problems in clubbering an Apache.
I am very astonished that someone outside the Old Continent ever heard of the "Apaches" of Montmartre - most people around here knows them. They are a bit comparable to the Hells Kitchen in New York... I am glad you approove this collection and enjoy.
Speaking of clubbering, myself a hundred years ago would have been this chap, respectively he would have been my brother.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/r7YA.....WU/s-l1600.jpg
I guess he had no problems in clubbering an Apache.
Guess I know my world history to some extent. Before 1939, Apaches were part of the mythic Paris just like gangsters were part of the mythic Chicago. Hells Kitchen would've featured gangs like The Dead Rabbits and the Whyos, real thugs that became folklore figures, like Big Mose the Bowery Boy. Nowadays, if folks over here remember the Parisian Apaches at all its because of the "Apache Dance", endless parodied in old animated cartoons (Go on You Tube and watch Krazy Kat in "The Apache Kid" and Disney's Silly Symphony "Woodland Café" to see what I'm talking about.) Now, if I was at the Moulin Rouge, it would've been fun to meet La Goulue along with Jane Avril and Valentin le Desosee, and buy them all drinks. But the person I really would've wanted to meet was Toulouse-Lautrec. I took a gander at the picture of yourself 100 years back. Just like I thought- Lord pity the Apache dumbbell that tried to pull a knife on you, yeah!
He was fighting for the Papal Zuaves against the Redshirts of Garibaldi. Like always my family was fighting for a lost cause.
Here is him (kneeling, left) and Pope Pius IX., the last sovereign of the Patrimonium Petri:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...../Pio_IX_04.JPG
And here at the battle of Mentana, where they shot his horse but surprisingly missed him.
http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/48/.....er-mentana.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-2ub1YvB8 :-3 Hope you like the little Apachesque cabaret dance
Here is him (kneeling, left) and Pope Pius IX., the last sovereign of the Patrimonium Petri:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...../Pio_IX_04.JPG
And here at the battle of Mentana, where they shot his horse but surprisingly missed him.
http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/48/.....er-mentana.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-2ub1YvB8 :-3 Hope you like the little Apachesque cabaret dance
While the Gentlemen go by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LtOIN1G4I
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street.
Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk;
Laces for a lady, letters for a spy,
And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
Put the brishwood back again - and they'll be gone next day!
If you see the stable-door setting open wide;
If you see a tired horse lying down inside;
If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;
If the lining's wet and warm - don't you ask no more!
If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,
You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.
If they call you "pretty maid," and chuck you 'neath the chin,
Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been!
Knocks and footsteps round the house - whistles after dark -
You've no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.
Trusty's here, and Pincher's here, and see how dumb they lie -
They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by!
If you do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
You'll be given a dainty doll, all the way from France,
With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
A present from the Gentlemen, along o' being good!
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk;
Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie -
Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LtOIN1G4I
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street.
Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk;
Laces for a lady, letters for a spy,
And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
Put the brishwood back again - and they'll be gone next day!
If you see the stable-door setting open wide;
If you see a tired horse lying down inside;
If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;
If the lining's wet and warm - don't you ask no more!
If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,
You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.
If they call you "pretty maid," and chuck you 'neath the chin,
Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been!
Knocks and footsteps round the house - whistles after dark -
You've no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.
Trusty's here, and Pincher's here, and see how dumb they lie -
They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by!
If you do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
You'll be given a dainty doll, all the way from France,
With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
A present from the Gentlemen, along o' being good!
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk;
Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie -
Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by.
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