There exists a photo of RE Howard with two of his friends. They have a total of three swords - sabers? Does anyone know about this photo? Who are his friends? Whose swords are they? What are they doing, some kind of play-acting?
Three Swords Of "two-gun"
Started by Orkin, Apr 03 2003 06:13 PM
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Posted 03 April 2003 - 06:13 PM
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Posted 03 April 2003 - 10:50 PM
Hi .
... Orkin Wrote :
>There exists a photo of RE Howard with two of his friends. They have a total of three swords - sabers? Does anyone know about this photo? Who are his friends? Whose swords are they? What are they doing, some kind of play-acting?
- There's a copy of that photo at the REHupa site ...
http://www.rehupa.co...hree_swords.jpg .
- The picture is also shown on page 388 of "The Last Celt" hb . There it states ( from Left to Right ) , that the figures are Robert E Howard , Truett Vinson and Tevis Clyde Smith ( two friends of REH's ) .
- I'll leave any possible identification of the blades to somebody with more than my meagre knowledge of swords , but REH was known to have cheap swords at some points in time . So they could possibly be Bob's , or even belong to anyone in the picture ?
- It certainly looks as if they are play acting . Perhaps they're the three musketeers ?
Cheers , Danny .
... Orkin Wrote :
>There exists a photo of RE Howard with two of his friends. They have a total of three swords - sabers? Does anyone know about this photo? Who are his friends? Whose swords are they? What are they doing, some kind of play-acting?
- There's a copy of that photo at the REHupa site ...
http://www.rehupa.co...hree_swords.jpg .
- The picture is also shown on page 388 of "The Last Celt" hb . There it states ( from Left to Right ) , that the figures are Robert E Howard , Truett Vinson and Tevis Clyde Smith ( two friends of REH's ) .
- I'll leave any possible identification of the blades to somebody with more than my meagre knowledge of swords , but REH was known to have cheap swords at some points in time . So they could possibly be Bob's , or even belong to anyone in the picture ?
- It certainly looks as if they are play acting . Perhaps they're the three musketeers ?
Cheers , Danny .
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Posted 08 January 2012 - 07:09 AM
IIRC one of the swords was a saber and one was a fencing foil. I didn't get a good look at the 3rd.
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"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
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"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
