[TheForge] SCA? Sword making tools/ prints

Tue Jul 2 22:09:00 2002

At 03:32 PM 7/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>  The 1700s  French Post Vise hasn't changed much down to the present., 
> nor  actually have the French anvils.
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=891097223
>
>What you suggested  below is easily done, but  because of the  resolution 
>of the original jpg photo posted to EBAY, by the time one saves a  copy, 
>cut out and enlarge the individual plate- page to full  size, the quality 
>of the printed image is somewhat  degraded. It would still  be nice to 
>have an original print.
>
>Dann

     Yes, Original prints would be nice, but what they are doing is cutting 
apart  a 230 year old book and selling one page at a time.  What a terrible 
thing to do.  Sure, they'll make more money this way, but the entire 
encyclopedia is (I think) more than the sum of it's parts, showing a 
picture of a society in transition.  (and they didn't print THAT many copies!

    On the other hand, you can get the Dover books reprint in two 
volumes  for $26.50 each.  Go to http://store.doverpublications.com/ and 
search for Diderot.  or for Art Deco Ornamental Ironwork,   or  The 
Archaeology Of Weapons: Arms And Armour From Prehistory To...,  or 
for    Wrought Iron In Architecture: An Illustrated Survey

Michael D. Horgan , [email protected]
http://members.aol.com/lughaid/
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