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Medieval gem engraving only recaptured the full skills of classical gem engravers at the end of the period, but simpler inscriptions and motifs were sometimes added earlier. Pearls gathered in the wild from the Holarctic freshwater pearl mussel were much used, with Scotland a major source; this species is now endangered in most areas.
Collectors Weekly is an online resource for people interested in antiques, collectibles, and vintage items. The site pairs live auctions with original content, which ranges from encyclopedic essays to multi-sourced articles that aim to illuminate the cultural history of objects. [citation needed]
Elmslie at times has described these as both ‘proto-messer’ or ‘messer adjacent’, since they are more knife like in construction than sword like in their mounting. There is some indication that they may be related to Northern Italian forms of tool/weapon which may have been called Falcastro, and this is an ongoing area of research. In ...
The Medieval Review, formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, is a peer-reviewed online academic journal that was established in 1993. Originally the journal was published at the University of Washington, from 1995 to 2007 by Western Michigan University; since 2007 it is published by Indiana University. [1] The journal reviews books on Medieval ...
TIAS.com has been online since April 1995 [2] and was an early provider of member inventory to eBay. [3]In 1996 TIAS acquired CyberAntiquemall.com. [citation needed] In 2000 TIAS acquired online antique mall, AntiqueArts.com. [4]
Collectors Universe Inc. is an American company formed in 1986, now based in Santa Ana, California, which provides third-party authentication and grading services to collectors, retail buyers and sellers of collectibles. Its authentication services focus on coins, trading cards, sports memorabilia, and autographs.
Oakeshott's date for the Cawood sword itself is now c. 1100–1150. This has consequences for the dating of medieval sword blade inscriptions, as the inscriptions on the Cawood blade are very typical of the "garbled" letter-group inscriptions on high medieval blades (tentatively transcribed as NnRDIOnNnR ⊕N[RSRDIGATON[I). [4]