Items

• Joseph Vince Co. Catalog
  Catalog of fencing equipment from the Joseph Vince Company. Includes illustrations and photographs of weapons, protective equipment, and accessories. A description of the company's sale from Joseph Vince to Torao Mori is found on the second page.
• J. H. Lau & Co. Catalog
  66 page catalog for J. H. Lau & Co. of New York. Features illustrations, descriptions, and prices for firearms (pages 2 to 39), ammunition (pages 40 to 48), firearm and hunting accessories (pages 49 to 58), and eight pages of fencing equipment (pages 59 to 66). Includes fencing sticks, foils, sabres, masks, jackets, plastrons, shoes, and gloves.
• Italian Postcard of a Woman and a Duel
  Italian postcard depicting a glamorous woman holding a mixed school (scuola mista) fencing sword. Inset behind her is a a dueling scene with two combatants and their seconds.
• International Fencers Supply Price List
  Seasonal school and club price list for International Fencers Supply, Inc.
• Inside a Salle d'Armes at Joinville
  Postcard with photograph of fencers receiving instruction inside a Salle d’armes at Ecole Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et d'Escrime.
• Infantry Fencing School Postcard
  French postcard depicting a fencing school, likely École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr due to the "Infanterie" title and the uniforms worn by two of the men in the image, particularly the red pants which were worn by students and graduates of Saint-Cyr.
• Horstmann Fencing Goods Catalogue
  Fencing equipment catalogue for the Horstmann Uniform Company, located in Philadelphia, Lyons, and Paris. Catalogue numbered "25B" and features descriptions and illustrations of fencing foils, epees, sabres, and masks.
• Gonzaga Institute Fencing Examination
  Photo postcard depicting the fencing portion of the final physical education exam at Istituto Gonzaga, Milan, Italy. Elementary students form fourteen rows and five ranks with sabres in hand.
• Foil Fencing at Joinville
  Postcard with photograph from the Ecole Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et d'Escrime at Joinville-le-Pont. Taken at Camp de St-Maur and labeled with "Escrime au Fleuret." A crowd watches three pairs of fencers. The two fencers in for foreground are fencing foil, while the pair behind them hold sabres. A handwritten inscription is dated 1911 from Joinville.
• Fencer from 1947 Esquire Calendar
  Calendar page of the mini 1947 "Esquire Girl Calendar." This Esquire mini calendar was a pocket-sized version of the larger wall calendar produced annually, and this particular February page was cut out of the whole accordion-folded calendar. The original painting of the fencer was painted in early April for the August 1942 edition of Esquire but was replaced by the "George Washington" figure which better suited the wartime fervor.
• February 1955 Esquire Calendar Pin Up
  February page of the 1955 Esquire pin-up calendar. The entire calendar features illustrations by George Petty, and the February image depicts a woman wearing a see-through leotard with a red heart on her breast, a fencing glove, and is bending a fencing sword against the ground. A short poem accompanies the image in the top left: Your Valentine awaits the day With tender heart and sharp epee. (In case you'd planned on candy, Sirs, Get the point - and bring her furs.)
• Epee Competition at Joinville
  Postcard with photograph from the Ecole Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et d'Escrime at Joinville-le-Pont. Taken at Camp de St-Maur labeled as “Une Poule a I’Epee." A crowd watches two epee fencers as a director holds their points together prior to an assault.
• Epee Assaults at Joinville
  Postcard with photograph from the Ecole Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et d'Escrime at Joinville-le-Pont. Taken at Camp de St-Maur. Even though the postcard is labeled as “Assaut de Fleuret,” the group of fencers in this photograph are fencing with epees. The fencer on the right can be seen performing a stop-thrust to the wrist of the fencer on the left.
• Entrance to Camp de Saint Maur
  Photo postcard depicting the entrance to the École Normale Militaire de Gymnastique et de Escrime at the the Camp de Saint Maur.
• Carl Eickhorn Fechtgeraete Catalog
  Carl Eickhorn (Solingen, Germany) catalog covering their complete line of fencing equipment.
• Belgian Fencing Postcard
  Postcard featuring caricatures of fencers against a black background. "Escrime" printed in the top left and the signature of the artist "Fernel" in the bottom left.
• Belgian Fencing Postcard
  Postcard featuring a left handed female fencer thrusting to her opponent's chest, and specifically to a red heart on his jacket. Both fencers hold figure eight french foils, are on a red piste, and behind them on the wall are crossed swords and two masks.
• At a Fencing "At Home"
  Postcard with fencing scene and written joke: "Distinguished Foreigner (hero of a hundred duels): 'It is delightful, Mademoiselle. You English are a sporting nation.' Fair Member: 'So glad you are enjoying it. By the way, Monsieur le Marquis, have they introduced fencing into France yet?'" Signature "Oilette" on bottom left of illustration. Back of card details the jokes origin from "Punch". Printed in England by "Raphael Tuck & Sons’ 'OILETTE' [Regd.]". Postcard number 9188. Publishers proclaim to be "ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN".
• American Fencers Supply Catalog with 1980 Price List
  American Fencers Supply Co. catalog with separate price list insert.
• Allstar Equipment Price List
  Price list for the Allstar fencing equipment company.
• Allstar Equipment Price List
  Price list for the Allstar fencing equipment company.
• Advertisement for Salle d'Armes Vince
  Advertisement for fencing instruction at Salle d'Armes Vince located at 247 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA.
• 1983 Santelli Fencing Equipment Price List
  Seasonal school and club price list for Santelli fencing equipment. Includes driving directions to the company's new address in Englewood, New Jersey as well as a blank mail-in order form.
• 1981 Triplette Competition Arms Price List
  Seasonal price list for Triplette Competition Arms with blank mail-in ordering forms. Includes reference to the company's distribution of Prieur, Negrini, and Uhlmann equipment.
• 1981 Triplette Competition Arms Price List
  Seasonal price list for Triplette Competition Arms. Includes reference to the company's distribution of Prieur, Negrini, and Uhlmann equipment.