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A shilling of George III, king at the turn of the 19th century.. The King's shilling, sometimes called the Queen's shilling when the Sovereign is female, [1] is a historical slang term referring to the earnest payment of one shilling given to recruits to the armed forces of the United Kingdom in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, although the practice dates back to the end of the English Civil ...
Many different weapons were created and used in Anglo-Saxon England between the fifth and eleventh centuries. Spears , used for piercing and throwing, were the most common weapon. Other commonplace weapons included the sword, axe, and knife—however, bows and arrows , as well as slings , were not frequently used by the Anglo-Saxons.
[1] [5] At the age of 12 he bought his first antique firearm – a percussion-cap pistol – for 3 shillings at an antique shop in Broadstairs, Kent. [5] The pistol is still in the collection today. Keith Neal spent his early career working for the distinguished Bath portrait photographer Herbert Lambert. During these years his collection grew ...
The Triple Unite, valued at sixty shillings, 60/-or three pounds, was the highest English denomination to be produced in the era of the hammered coinage. It was only produced during the English Civil War , at King Charles I 's mints at Oxford (between 1642 and 1644) and, rarely, at Shrewsbury in 1642.
Coin of Offa, king of Mercia, 757-796, with the Latin legend OFFA REX MERCIOR; British coins still carry Latin inscriptions in the 21st century. In the latter part of the 8th century a new style of silver penny appeared in Anglo-Saxon England, thinner and commonly bearing the names of both the king and the moneyer who had struck it.
The Wallace Sword is an antique two-handed sword purported to have belonged to William Wallace (1270–1305), a Scottish knight who led a resistance to the English occupation of Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence. It is said to have been used by William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 and the Battle of ...
An antique firearm is a term used to describe a firearm that was designed and manufactured prior to the beginning of the 20th century. Although the exact definition of what constitutes an "antique firearm" varies between countries, the advent of smokeless powder or the start of the Boer War are often used as cut-off dates. [1]
The Grunwald swords (Before 1410), once part of the Polish Crown Jewels, lost in 1853. The Sigismuntus Iustus ("[Sword of] Justice of Sigismund", c. 1520), sword of King Sigismund I the Old. Displayed at the Wawel Castle. [33] The ceremonial sword of Stanisław August Poniatowski (1764), sword of King Stanisław II Augustus.