Cold Steel Weapons Of The World

The huge statue of "The Motherland Calls" for Stalingrad was also featured on a stamp of the DDR in 1983. Stalingrad had already become Wolgograd. Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin created what was at the time (1967) the largest statue in the world. The sword of steel alone measures 33 meters! The figure of an inspector on the statue gives you a feeling of how large she is.

The other stamp featuring "Motherland Calls" was issued in 1971. A few tourists at the base in the photograph for size comparison.

In 9 AD, Roman-educated Arminius turned against his former allies of the Roman Empire and an alliance of tribes under his leadership defeated three Roman legions commanded by Varus in what became known as the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. In the 16th century, Arminius was translated into Hermann in the writing of Ulrich von Hutten and this name became established. The monument rises a total of 53.44 m. The statue accounts for 26.57 m (including the sword) and is thus shorter than the sword alone of the "Motherland Calls" monument. The statue was made from copper plates supported by an iron frame and was inaugurated in 1875, just a year before the death of the sculptor Ernst von Bandel. It is a popular tourist site.

actor of the Kabuki Theater with a huge sword. Probably this is the biggest of Japanese swords - nodati "sword for the field"
Sword of impressive size, mostly had a blade length of 1 to 1.5 meters, but there were instances with a blade more than 2 meters

Another large statue: this one a Russian soldier carrying a child and a huge sword with which he has just destroyed a swastika. Monument to Soviet Soldiers standing in the Treptow park of Berlin, in which thousands are buried. Made of bronze, the statue is 12 meters high, the sword about 6 meters long. Stamp of 1985, as well as in an earlier set of 1973-4.

Alexey, Are there any Russian stamps with this statue? K.

Please Kris, I hope you don't mind if I correct you. The first stamp, is Mi#2945, issued on May 7th, 1985. The second one is, as you wrote, Mi#1882, issued on September 18th, 1973.

A sword of the 15th century was shown on a stamp issued for the Philatelic Exhibition in Madrid in 1975. Part of a set honoring craftsmanship in decorating such swords. Cursus, do you know more about the swords of Boabdil?

(And thank you for seeing my typo! K.)

I don't know much about Spain or their stamps, as none of them are on my interest field.
But, I guess that Boabdil was the last muslim king of Granada (South of the Iberian peninsula)before its conquest, in January 1492, by the combined forces of the kingdoms of Castile and Catalonia-Aragon, lead by the so-called "Catholic kings" (Ferran of Catalonia-Aragon and Isabel of Castile). This, meant the end of the muslim power in Western Europa.

his monument has an interesting history: several people claim that was posed to the sculptor and several people committed the act that is depicted in the monument: they saved German children during the battles for Berlin

Amazing, Alexey, you found so many examples of stamps with the statue in Treptow! I found two more issued by the DDR: the first for ten years after the war, the second for 30 years after the war.

And one issued by Vietnam as well. 1985

one of the prototypes of the monument was Trifon Lukyanovich from Belarus. He passed the whole war and returned home in 1944. Having learned that his wife and daughters were killed in Minsk, he returned to the front. April 29, rescued a German girl from the shooting, but was mortally wounded and died five days later

A rare item of armament is a case for arrows. Gold plate of the Scythian case - GORIT

It is a find from the rich Scythian burial mound Chertomlyk

on the stamp of Ukraine the complex of Scythian weapons is visible: a powerful bow, a short sword - AKINAC and a case for arrows - GORIT



another similar item - tatar a case for bow and arrows - SAADAK

such cases we see in the illustrations of Russian fairy tales of the artist Bilibin

Carlos I of Spain (1500-1558) had a sword with elaborate decoration. Stamp part of a block of four issued for the International Philatelic Exhibition in Madrid, 1975. The set features beautiful works of gold- and silversmiths.

The design of the sword was suggested by George IV, and it was paid for out of the King's privy purse. It was used as a Sword of Offering in his coronation ceremony in 1821. It is now part of the regalia, Crown Jewels, in the Tower of London (and I was able to admire them there recently).