Starting out with a few photos from the Army museum in Stockholm. Nothing I haven't pointed at camera at before, but the camera has been upgraded since last time there.
Viking age sword.
Ballocks dagger. If they felt like going for a phallic shape back in the days they weren't overly shy about it.
Warhammer, probably* 16th century.*It was only when I sat down to edit these photos when I noticed that they've added a sign underneath this display with info on everything. Perhaps I'll remember to photograph that too the next time I'm in town.
The general theme of the uppermost floor and a half is "the history of warfare", and it starts very early.
German mercenary, early 16th century.
15th-early 16th century equipment.
"Pretzel hilt", greatswords with such guards appear to have been quite popular with Swedish peasants in the early 16th century. Hilts likely of local manufacture, blades generally German bargain bin imports.
Infantry, 30 years war.
Swedish muskets, ca 1620-30. The Swedish army reduced its standard musket calibre to 20mm in the 1620, and stuck to that until the 1810s.
Cavalry sword, likely for an officer, 1620-30s.Cavalry sword of Dutch style (and possibly manufacture too), first half of the 17th century. Gustav II Adolf had these introduced widely in the Swedish forces, an early step towards standardisation.Cavalry sword, 1630-50.Infantry sword, mid 17th century.Sword, 1160-70.Infantry trooper's sword m/1685. Remained in use for a long time, with production going well into five digits (around 280 000 IIRC).Possibly notable by it's absence is the first properly adopted Swedish sword model, the infantry trooper's m/1653. ( https://www.bukowskis.com/en/lots/704983-varja-sk-soldatsvard-m-1653 )
Buff leather coat, late 17th century. Light armour that might help with poor sword hits or catching the lead splatter from bullets hitting your breastplate. Faded into parade use in the early 18th century, where it remains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC8nVvnApyA
Pistol m/1685
Cavalry trooper's sword, "ca 1680". Adoption of fully recognised official models hadn't quite penetrated through the cavalry yet at the time, but it was getting close, and the vats majority of the Swedish cavalry at the time likely had swords like this one. The specific style, a descendant of the Ducth swords seen above and the "Walloon" hilts, may be a Swedish speciality.
Officer's sword, 1670s. A bit beefier than the average smallsword, but we can very much see where things were about to go for noblemen's swords here.
Regimental officer, Karl XI's days.
And one of his men. Late 17th century, given the m/1685 sword he carries.
Cavalry, early 18th century.
>>65257864paddle on lower left, what is that?jawbone, pig dentures? how effective is that compared to a wooden oogah boogah caveman club? no clue about bone as a material for weapons.
Cavalry swords, top to bottom...Officer's, 1680sOfficer's, 1690, "Drabant" style (the king's personal bodyguard and battlefield problem solvers).m/1701 for the drabants.m/1693 for the drabants.The m/1701 drabant sword has a gilded hilt, at the time something only officers were allowed to have. This was due to them being supposed to be the best of the best, and so the troopers there were given the same pay, privileges, and rank-pulling ability as the basic junior officer in the army at large, with the rest of the command chain being equally bumped up.Karl XII reportedly liked to sleep with his head in the lap of one of them.
Sled gun, trial model. Made in 1708, rejected due to being a bit too clumsy to haul around. Dunno how much of the innovation here was in the sled mount, and how much was in the tripple-ish barrel design.>>65257968>paddle on lower left, what is that?As I didn't photograph the sign my best guess is a polynesian club.>jawbone, pig dentures? how effective is that compared to a wooden oogah boogah caveman club?I think it's from a donkey, and present more as a "eastern Mediterranean cultural Easter egg" than it ever seeing much direct use as a weapon.As for bone weaponry I've seen some bone arrow/spear/harpoon heads, mostly from places and times where alternatives were rather limited.
>>65257864This is the kind of stuff that's fun to see on /k/Thank you OP
Sweet, a KM thread
Military discipline, early 18th century. Musket carrying, flogging, breaking on the wheel. The last soldier to die on/threaded into the wheel Olof Dahlström (?-1726), sentenced for an apparently particularly cruel murder. Breaking was abolished in 1734, while the other two punishments were banned in 1812.
Assorted weapons from Stora Daldansen ("The Great Dalecarlian Dance") in 1734, Sweden's last major peasant uprising. Against the army's musket and grapeshot they proved rather inadequate.
Infantry kit, late 18h century (say, Russo-Swedish war).
Swedish artillery officer, Russo-Swedish war of 1788–1790.
>>65258065>Russians needed saving from THIS?
>>65258070>Russo-Swedish war of 1788–1790.Sorry, the Finnish war of 1808-9. Mindfart. Which wans't fought against Finland, but was the war where Sweden lost Finland to Russia, which in turn resulted in Gustav IV to be the only Swedish king since Sigismund to get fired and eventually for the current royal family to get recruited instead.And seen here is a Russian infantryman (jaeger IIRC) from the same conflict.
Uniform m/1823 for a trooper of the Royal Guard's Dragoon. (Not the drabant guard, the regular royal guard.) Fancy, but of questionable field-worthy-ness.>>65258075As it turned out, they didn't really.
>>65257875More of a war-pick, I think. The hammer end is tiny and vestigial.
>>65258097Misclicked (no autocarrot, not mislicked) there when selecting the image, that's an infantryman, late 19th century. Military fashion is now set by Prussia. And ehre's the dragoon's uniform.
Machine-gun, designed by Palmcrantz in 1869. It suffered reliability issues if you cranked too fast (above ca 300 rpm), so he gave up on it and instead switched over to working on a design with a number of simultaneously firing barrels lying side by side, which he patented in 1874 and had great success selling internationally. Outside of Sweden the latter gun is generally known by the name of his business partner: Nordenfeldt.>>65258100Yeah, they rather evolved in that direction. At leats that one can be held either way, I've seen one with a knucklebow that made it quite clear that the pick was the side to use.
>>65258090>the Finnish war of 1808I really should do my cultural duty and read the Tales of Ensign Stål.One day I'll do it.I swear.
Caponier gun, I think the 57mm m/1907. Used for close defence of fortifications (blasting shrapnel charges right down the "moats"), such as the fortresses at Boden and Vaberget.
Some not-Swedish WW1 gear.>>65258132...I should probably get around to that too some day. Just bought a new pile of books though, but hopefully I'll remember it for the next batch.
Better than to curse the darkness...
French m/1822 light cavalry sabre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3dFpQzu54w
Swedish infantryman, WW2.
Sword of Makoto Onodera, military attaché to the Japanese embassy in Stockholm during WW2. Left to the Swedish state as a farewell gift when he was recalled following the peace, so he wouldn't have to surrender it to the Americans.
Lahti L-39 20mm AT rifle. Probably just here as a General WW2 thing, I don't think Sweden ever adopted it (we went with the predecessor of the Carl Gustaf instead).
Items for implosion testing, remains of Sweden's nuclear weapon program.
Things to make my dad suffer flashbacks...
Bv206. Unarmoured utility vehicle with supposedly utterly super terrain capability. This is not a vehicle with a trailer, but a two part vehicle with both the front and rear section's tracks pushing it forward. The ride is... spartan, and at full capacity the passengers in the front will find themselves dreaming of the wastefully luxurious amounts of legroom found on the average tourist class airline flight.
>>65258176>>65258177Last place i'd expect to see a japanese ww2 sword.
AK5
Cavalry trooper's sword m/1729 (For the /English language sign the museum choose "smallsword" here and... no. Just no. The bloody thing is over 1.4 kg.)Cavalry trooper's sword m/1739 (See above...)Hussar trooper's sabre m/1759Cavalry trooper's sabre m/1807Hussar trooper's sabre m/1814Hussar&royal guard cavalry trooper's sabre m/1825
Officer's sabres, ca 1780s and ca 1800.
Somewhat more modern stuff, four Swedish used guns and one American copycat.
Astra 600
One of the many revolvers test fired (for bullet scratch "fingerprinting") during the investigation into the murder of Sweden’s prime minister Olof Prime in 1986. This one wasn't a match.Hearing from mom that morning that Palme had been shot, very young me went down to have a look at the potted palm tree we had in the living room (palm being the same in Swedish and English), thinking someone had shot the top off of it since it had been growing basically right up to the ceiling. It did seem like an odd way to trim a tree, but hey, what did I know? The tree looked much the same as before though.
Pistol m/40, a slightly simplified for cost version of the Lahti L-35. Retired in the eighties because the m/39b ammo was beating them to death, replaced with the Glock 17.
Speaking of...
Pistol fm/1903-1904Designed by a Swedish insurance executive and engineer named Gustaf Hugo Rhöss Hamilton, it failed to find any customers and the man behind it gave up on weapon design. He apparently had some success with a globular street light later on though.
UAV 01 Ugglan. French design, used by the Swedish army from the late nineties and up to ca 2010.
On to the Mediterranean Museum in Stockholm.Assorted Egyptian stone tools/weapons.
Flint-tipped arrow.>>65258329Bronze dagger with ivory pommel.I'm starting to be not entierly happy about the museum’s lack of dating. Ancient Egypt covers a lot of years.
Oh for fucks...
Bronze axeheads. Very thin and "flat" affairs.
Maybe not a weapon, but included for its novelty: a bronze saw blade.Saws may be common nowadays, but before good steal got cheap they were rather rare things.
Leaving Egypt for Cyprus: Mace and axeheads. The former dated ca 1600-1450 BC.
Arrowheads, bronze age to classical period.
Arrowheads, 6th century BC.
Greek pottery with warrior figure.
Herakles
And some items on display in the cafeteria sections, where they were left entirely without signs.
That's all for the museums, so to round it off I have a few photos of local wildlife.If someone wants the museum photos zipped up:https://www.mediafire.com/file/13s7vw2k4l2nwpi/Sverige_-_Arm%25C3%25A9museum_Additional.zip/filehttps://www.mediafire.com/file/bwce3hbzs65b4ut/Sverige_-_Medelhavsmuseet_Additional.zip/file
And that's all for this time around.
>>65257890i like this
Well done OP, thanks
Thanks, KM. You have the good dumps.>>65257866Is that wood on the right a simple club? Fully intact as it was in its day?
>>65257864oh neat I always follow these threads I think I missed the last one though.
>>65259458>Is that wood on the right a simple club? Fully intact as it was in its day?I think so, I haven't noticed any damage on it and I seem to recall having seen clubs much like that.>>65259754The previous two were Museo Aeronautica and the Stibbert Collection in Italy.https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4v4c0uwexuyo7/My+Photographs
>>65259458> Is that wood on the right a simple club? Fully intact as it was in its day?If you look at OP image, that's a pretty eclectic collection of weaponry. The club looks like a pacific islander war club, so it might be little more than 100-200 years old. It's not anywhere near as old as the 900AD Viking sword next to it. Some wooden medieval clubs are in museums and in the auction/antique market, but they are often somewhat worm-eaten, unless they're exceptionally cared for.
>>65257939why do you put "walloon" in quotes?
>>65260307To show that I'm just treating it as a name there, with little intended to be said about how much of a Walloon-specific thing it may have been as I'm highly uncertain about that. It does happen that such names are more of a "collector's label" than actually well researched attributions. (Especially since there's two slightly different styles, and when people speak of Wallooon hilts it seems they generally mean just the one of them, but which varies.)
>>65258017>>65258011It's even in the OG blue and gold of Father Christmas.
>>65258329Damn son, intact fittings of any kind are hella rare.
>>65257864Is that the jaw bone of an ass?
>>65261069I think so.
>>65257864Another KM museum dump? Dont mind me thank you very much
>>65259725>is this the one with a f16 hanging from the celing?No. It does have an S-tank parked out in front though.
Good thread. Thanks for contributing
