Cold Steel Weapons Of The World

An ancient sword, about 8th century, found at Steinsvik, Norway, now in the National Museum.

In 9-10 centuries on the territory of Russia there were natives of Scandinavia.


In our museums you can find exactly the same swords (photo from Yaroslavl) this sword has blacksmith's mark +VLFBERHT+ and was manufactured in Germany (in Austrasia)

A scene from the famous Polish epic poem "A Nobleman's Tale" in 12 books of verse by Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855). The engraving for this beautiful stamp was done on the basis of an original engraving for the publication of the verses at the beginning of the 19th century. A movie was made in 1999.

Hello, Chris. Your heroic handsome man is dressed in a Ulan uniform. Ulan (Lancer) cavalry appeared in Poland with Tatar detachments in the 15th and 16th centuries. From them remained the traditional Ulan cap with a square top. Such hats were worn by the Mongolian nobility in the early Middle Ages.

Sultanate of Oman

The Khanjar is a traditional weapon carried nowadays for
ceremonial purposes by Omani men.





It features in the national emblem of the Sultanate of Oman.

Three hundred years of Freemasonry. A set of six stamps from the Isle of Man features badges of office of the Freemasons. The stamps are elaborately made: there is gold and even hidden messages of the lodges of England and the Isle of Man.

portrait of Evgraf Davydov by Orest Kiprensky

The dashing cavalryman is depicted in the uniform of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment with a heavy hussar sword of the 1798 pattern.

Evgraf Davydov participated in the battles of the companies of 1805 and 1807 against Napoleon. Personally fought in the battles of Lutzen, Kulma, Austerlitz and Ostrovno. He was wounded during the Patriotic War of 1812. In 1813 he returned to the army and was seriously wounded in the Battle of Leipzig



Evgraf Davydov was a distant relative of another famous hussar, Denis Davydov. Denis Davydov was the commander of a partisan detachment during the war of 1812, but is better known as a poet and friend of Pushkin.

Easter greetings sent by post card during the first years of the past century sometimes had a distinct military connotation. I found the scan of this greeting on the web, ca. 1910.

After WWI stamps were issued by many countries celebrating Peace; this one with a wounded soldier and a broken sword.

View of the statue "Let Us Beat Our Swords into Ploughshares", a gift of the Soviet Union to the United Nations. The bronze statue, created by the Soviet sculptor Evgeniy Vuchetich (1908-1974), was installed in the north garden area of the United Nations in 1959. USSR stamp of 1970 for the 25th anniversary of the UN.

A good motive for Easter Sunday. Alexey, Do you know where the original stands? K.

The phrase originates from the Book of Isaiah: "...and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

Alexey, Do you happen to know which buildings are shown in the background? K.

This is a picture of perhaps the first stamp issued featuring the statue, 1960. A symbolic globe in the background.

The motive was repeated for the 40th anniversary of the United Nations in 1985.

This sword has a long history ... It was forged in the depths of the Ural mountains. Monument in Magnitogorsk, a worker hands the soldier a sword


In Stalingrad this sword was raised



and lowered it in Berlin, in Treptow Park

Hungary used the statue as a motive for their stamp of 1962 for the World Congress for Peace and Disarmament, which was held in Moscow.