interesting collection. :) the left ones look middle-european to me. especially the tall one. the rightmost has a russian appearance to him.

hehe, I'm probably all wrong, I never had much interest in uniforms and military, I'm more a role-playing gamer and interested in history at large.
hm, is that art nouveau on that one musket butt? XD

Here - I'M obsessed by this sort of stuff! Let me through!

(The gentleman to the furthest right looks as if inspired by circaussian Turkish arquerbusiers. The second from the right looks inspired by Safavid Persian infantry. The other gentlemen are Ming or Korean with Portugese/Dutch style arquerbusses...)

(Did you know Turkish Jannisaries revered the regimental cooking pot, and that the chief cook carried a large golden spoon as a standard? I mention it only to rejoice in the fact that history is deeply fucked up!)

ooh, why didn't you say so? I'm gonna make a foolout of myself!

thanks for clarifying. :)

We wargamers are happy little obsessives for this sort of thing! And i'm a 17th & 18th century history buff!


arrr - you're from Germany! Land of Pappenheim's black cuirassiers. How cool is that?

then I know whom to ask for advice should any customer want something along these lines, and I can't find on the net. :)

yeah, and our kings were travelling the countryside to show up at any plaxce at least once a year. who said being king is a piece of cake? ^^

btw, "pappenheimer" had become a term for those low-status people who were to scrape free the tiny canals behind the rows of houses (no water, way too narrow, not enough base slope, and everybody dumped their trash and shit and whatnot there). there is a bill from nuremberg dating to 15th century where they had to pay good coin to have a canal dug out, after nine years of neglecting.
even nowadays, "Seine Pappenheimer kennen" ("knowing your pappenheimers") is an expression for "knowing your usual suspects".

Good lord - customers? Wanting 17th century gear? How cool is that!

But yeah, my life is spent immersed in all this stuff. Sumerian literature - English Civil War musket drill - Uniforms of the Wars of the Spanish Succession - Byzantine tactical manuals.... GLEEEEEEEEEEE!



I've just gathered all the pieces together to make the Heian period
Japanese robes for the Kitsune costume I'm making.

Gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

http://www.junihitoe.net/taiken/itm/kariginu.html


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Oddly enough, I think there's also a type of very silly collar called a 'Pappenheimer"! (I guess the labourers are named after the town, rather than poor ol' Gottfried Heinrich, Graf zu Pappenheim).

oooh, references!


we'll probably never find out. some names have been obscured through the centuries beyond recognition. :)

(just looked up "knowing your Pappenheimers"! It's a corruption of a passage from Schiller! Schller meant it positively (as in "I know how my kind of person acts") - and today, it's used with humour and irony)

indeed it is. :)

My American Girlfriend is still getting used to Australian sarcasm!

british humour down under. XD

Wow, you recognized them all! Though character second from the right was more influenced by musketeers of Zand dynasty persia, but still impressive!

I'm a wargamer! It's our job!

My novel "Fangs of K'aath" is full of furry tufekchi, sipahis and other madness.

Well, the patterns on musket butts are results of my poor attempt at drawing decorations on Islamic muskets and some Japanese arquebuses. If you are asking about the pattern on the musket held by leftmost character, than its sloppy drawing of Chinese arabesque pattern(唐草文).

ah, okay. the photograph obscures it for me. or is it a scan? :)

Aaaah cool!

Tufekchi!