Items

• 1955 Castello Catalog with Inserts
  1955 Castello Fencing Equipment catalog including prices and illustrations for weapons, protective equipment, accessories, and awards. Three loose-leaf inserts found with the catalog include a March 1956 price list and a mail-in ordering form with measurement instructions for jackets and trousers. Also included was a business card noting a change of company address on January 16th, 1956.
• 1939 Castello Equipment Catalog
  1939 Castello Fencing Equipment catalog including prices and illustrations for weapons, protective equipment, accessories, and awards.
• 1932 Byrrh Advertisement
  A printed French advertisement for Byrrh, an aromatic wine apéritif, featuring two uniformed fencers. It depicts one fencer, sitting and exhausted, and the other, standing with the caption "Je vous offre un Byrrh...Et votre revanche" (I offer you a Byrrh, and your revenge). This suggests the sitting fencer was bested by his opponent and they will go another round. Cut from the original periodical.
• 1924 Olympics Belgium Fencing Team
  4 members of the 1924 Belgium Fencing team. Charles Deplorte won gold in épée individual. Translated: 1924 Olympic Games. Individual foil tournament. Belgium team. [Charles] Delporte Belgium olympic champion L to R: 1: Léon Tom 2: Paul Anspach 3: Ernest Gevers 4: Charles Delporte
• 1902 Horstmann Fencing Goods Catalog
  Trade catalog detailing the Horstmann company's line of fencing equipment, including various types of foils, epees, sabres, rapiers, as well as masks, jackets, plastrons, and gloves.
• "The Pleasures of the Barracks" - Sabre Assault Postcard
  French postcard with a photograph of the inside of a military fencing school. Two fencers can be seen fencing with sabres as three other fencers and three uniformed soldiers observe. Foils and fencing masks (both padded and unpadded) line the wall behind.
• "She Never Touched Me"
  Postcard sent to C.M. Holliday in Fultonville, New York in 1905. Front depicts a fencer holding a foil in a lunge with the caption "she never touched me" above her.
• "Le Contre de Septime" Public Assaults Program
  Bifold program for the "Le Contre de Septime" public assaults on April 8th, 1901 presented by a society of military and civilian fencing masters with the same name. Cover in the art nouveau style depicting a long-haired woman wearing a fencing glove, holding a fencing sword, and with a fencing mask at her feet. Back cover depicts a disembodied glove grasping a fencing sword. The event consisted of eight total assaults; six with the foil and one bout each with the sabre and epee de combat. The assaults were directed by Captain LeGlercq of the 7th Artillery Regiment and presided by monsieur Pauwels, "president d'honneur" of the society. The pairings are as follows: Stordiau - Brusten (foil) Remes - De Bakker (foil) Cluytmans - Goujon (foil) Buquoi - Silvestry (epee de combat) Herfs - Michiels (sabre) Goeman - Hansoul (foil) Van de Wiele - Rabau (foil) Verbrugge - Jancart (foil)
• "Foil Proof" Pin-up and Matchbook Cover
  Two renderings of Gil Elvgren's "Foil Proof" pin-up depicting a woman wearing lingerie and wielding a fencing sword while in mid lunge. A plastron with a red heart and a fencing mask are at her feet to her right. The larger rendering of this image was printed by Louis F. Dow Co. of St. Paul, Minnesota that had Elvgren's printing rights between 1937 and 1944. The smaller rendering is likely a matchbook cover by its size.