eulaliavox:

Man and Woman Fencing - ca, 1904-1912.

The most amazing thing about this picture of a wounded cuirassier, being stripped of his armour while his sword and horse are tended in the background, is that it was taken in World War I. This is what warfare still looked like in the brief months before the trenches were dug.

(Source: vegetable)

wahnwitzig:

I don’t know who this is, but it was part of the footage I was going through with MvR. 

From an 1886 article on the New York Fencer’s Club in Century Magazine.

portailblog:

Duel au sabre (Source : Bnf), 1914.

coolchicksfromhistory:

Miss L. C. Berger and an unidentified woman (possibly Miss M. Wilzinski) sparring in Chicago, 1902.

Chicago Daily News photograph

(Source: jonathanknowles)

alessandrocagliostro:

Medieval Sword and fencing… my love and my sport!

hipthrow:

Bartitsu

I’m still amazed and extremely intrigued by this.