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- Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:32 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Regiment du Roi et Regiment de Conti
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1970
Regiment du Roi et Regiment de Conti
Regiment de Conti 1757 showing the bonnet with the flap turned down. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlVRfDC7rs/SpEh2PKv2hI/AAAAAAAADOg/k9wHqz5VXa4/s400/conti.jpg Regiment du Roi http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlVRfDC7rs/SpEdc_k0wTI/AAAAAAAADOQ/jdSmenM3mKE/s400/bonnet.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4QlVRfDC7r...
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:29 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: British camp scene 1780 colour version / detail
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1956
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:28 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: British camp scene 1780 colour version / detail
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1626
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:27 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: British camp scene 1780 colour version / detail
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1735
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:24 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Joseph Vernet SYW
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2017
Re: Joseph Vernet SYW
French port, Joseph Vernet SYW.
copy pic to file to be able to zoom in for amazing details within this painting.

copy pic to file to be able to zoom in for amazing details within this painting.

- Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:21 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Joseph Vernet SYW
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2017
Joseph Vernet SYW
detail of French triple cannon in French port, seven years war, Joseph Vernet


- Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:20 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Interested in 18th C. reenacting
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5528
Re: Interested in 18th C. reenacting
Bucket wrote:thanks for your kind observation cannontickler...




being serious for a mo though, thats all starting to look well cool, i deffo wanna come and play Minutemen, its a really good theme to base stuff around as well.
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:22 am
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Interested in 18th C. reenacting
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5528
Re: Interested in 18th C. reenacting
Hi Emma, i believe you've been in contact with us( Lexington Minutemen) we cover the early part of the American Rev War, 1775-1776, espcially Lexington/Concord and the retreat to Boston. I dont think Bret has given you this information, but we have a website, its still in the process of being produ...
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:02 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: ship building
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1746
ship building

ripping timbers for the schooner

frame of the schooner.
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:34 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: The numerous uses of linen in the 18th century
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- Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:28 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Rev war tents etc
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- Views: 1741
- Sun Jun 03, 2012 7:10 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Ball Blocks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6107
Re: Ball Blocks
Joolz wrote:Yes, but 'bullet boards' doesn't look like a rude word when you read it fast.......
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- Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:11 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Ball Blocks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6107
Re: Ball Blocks
Hello mate, they are more commonly known as bullet boards, see an original at top of this link. http://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/more-flintlock-tools.html the more elaborate looking ones are probably 19th century fakes, although there are 18th century double board examples . Steve is...
- Thu May 31, 2012 5:34 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: Pls help me some questions about the subject "British cultur
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2592
Re: Pls help me some questions about the subject "British cu
can one of the multitude of mod's on this forum nob this thread off to the general ignorance and drivel section.
this area of the forum is for proper subjects such as Thunderbirds and Captain scarlet chat,
Daleks still being a specialist subject of course.
this area of the forum is for proper subjects such as Thunderbirds and Captain scarlet chat,
Daleks still being a specialist subject of course.
- Sat May 26, 2012 6:51 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
Carpenters hall Philadelphia http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/history/images/feast.jpg An awning shades the Tavern's entrance in this 18th-century print. At right is the Bank of Pennsylvania which rented Carpenters' Hall while this imposing structure was underway If ever a building embodied t...
- Sat May 26, 2012 6:32 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century gossip rags
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1655
- Sat May 26, 2012 8:29 am
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
bit of a weedy pic, but if you copy it in and zoom its got some amazing detail.
A View of the Landing (of) the New England Forces in yee Expedition against Cape Breton, 1745"

A View of the Landing (of) the New England Forces in yee Expedition against Cape Breton, 1745"

- Sat May 26, 2012 8:24 am
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
oooh, suit you sir.......... Commodore the Honourable Augustus Keppel http://collections.rmg.co.uk/mediaLib/387/media-387796/large.jpg A three-quarter-length portrait slightly to left facing to right in captain's (over three years) undress uniform, 1748-67. This uniform was introduced in 1748 immed...
- Fri May 25, 2012 5:25 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
Nah were not getting regimentally in any way, just the militia gear of 1770's is different from the 1750's. Civilian clothing styles have changed. So if you've got kit like the photo, does that mean your going to appear very flat and 2 dimensional on us?!?! In seriousness, if you have clothing that...
- Thu May 24, 2012 6:42 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
So you need to turn up then.... btw would you like me to bring kitguide for the Minutmen to Weymouth smuggling event as i understand you'll be attending said event? who grassed me up, it was supposed to be a surprise, was going to merge into the masses in my mid 18th Naval kit and look all native l...
- Wed May 23, 2012 6:51 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
I've just pinched matey here off the pirate brethren site, he's great i recon. http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/upload/img_400/PY3329.jpg The Greenwich pensioners' uniforms are navy blue. (Also a correction: originally the pensioners' uniforms were dark grey lined with blue, then brown between 1...
- Wed May 23, 2012 6:12 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
Theres about a dozen of us aforesaid minutemen, all pushing to get our kit ready for our first proper show at bath, Weekend before 4th july. Then Kelmarsh, Should be good. You could say we can now claim to be a proper group see. :crazy: shut up you big tart, NO group is ever properly proper until i...
- Mon May 21, 2012 8:33 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
This one a little more for us of the SYW favour, but a very interesting painting just on content alone. Johann Heinrich Tischbein the princes painting showing Wilhelms’ grandsons. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9qV-8rhgrDQ/T4L94O0qrsI/AAAAAAAAAOw/WD4kO7Em_WE/s1600/Tischbein-5498.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot....
- Fri May 18, 2012 8:32 pm
- Forum: Creative Works
- Topic: Chap casting a pewter stool in the sand on a beach
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4563
Re: Chap casting a pewter stool in the sand on a beach
hmmm, like his style, a true talent without any of the bull, which the best ones always are.
- Thu May 17, 2012 8:10 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
a couple from one of my most favouritest artists, John Wootton. section detail from some of his works. George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Litchfield, and his Uncle the Hon. Robert Lee, Subsequently 4th Earl of Litchfield, Shooting in 'True Blue' Frock Coats John Wootton 1744 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/i...
- Thu May 17, 2012 7:13 am
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/battles/revolutionary-war-minutemen.jpg i sort of really like this contemporary print of the Lexington minutemen as it gives a good idea for a line of fire. Mr. Droll wrote. How small do you have to be to qualify as a minuteman? Is the next step up a t...
- Wed May 16, 2012 5:34 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
Still drooling over the fowling images........... :) Hey, each to their own fetish Mr. Stanley of the woods. Nice ideas for the Minutemen.............. the minutemen are a brilliant idea i recon, fills a gap in the market. I didn't catch up with how far the minutemen company had actually got last y...
- Tue May 15, 2012 7:47 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
steve stanley wrote:Still drooling over the fowling images...........
Hey, each to their own fetish Mr. Stanley of the woods.
- Tue May 15, 2012 7:46 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
If you want to be nice to Grania CT make her one of these http://noteworthy.zasu.us/composers/Mozart_WA/fantasy_c_minor_kv385f_completion/restored%20single-action%20Harp.jpg or http://www.palacepianos.com/en/uploads/harps/1266852676_cousineau-harp-1.jpg With some OTT carving, just no mystikal kelti...
- Mon May 14, 2012 7:50 pm
- Forum: 1715-1810
- Topic: 18th century street life
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12779
Re: 18th century street life
field marshal von Reech wrote . "but we'd also like people to see the softer, more genteel side of our natures (So, judging from the selection of illustrations above, we're going to wander about slaughtering wildlife and swilling port in seedy dives. Game on!) " I thought you said you were...