The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 278
promoted by wearing a < are so generally imitated that it is difficult to make sure of *l|F| flannel shirt and trowsers under the defensive eioth-vj-S ing, which must consist of mask, jacket, glove withgauntlet, and thigh piece or apron. getting them. They generally sell terrible rubbish at the… … wire so as to form an hexagonal mesh (Fig. 1). English wire-work is unsafe, as the broken end of a foil would stab throughit (Fig. 2). The German foil blades that are imported from Solingenmarked Kings Head have the oldest reputations, but thoy some men prefer soft leather, lined and padded; others…
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