Solingen Germany, April 26/27 2025, Collectors Meeting
On a really beautiful and summer like weekend the “Edged Weapons Collectors Meeting 2025” – or in German “Blankwaffen Sammlertreffen 2025” – took place in Solingen at the “Klingenmuseum”.
Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen on a beautiful morning
I was asked by another member if we should represent the NBTHK-EB at this meeting and so we did.
The table of the NBTHK-EB
Around 15 to 20 collectors from Germany, France and even Finland presented parts of their collections. On each day 50 visitors came to enjoy the exhibition and listened to the six lectures:
- Development of the Heavy Cavalry Saber Model An 9 to An 11
- The Use of the “French Form” Cavalry Saber in the Prussian Army
- Battlefield Wounding in the Napoleonic Era – The Role of Edged Weapons and Firearms
- The Depiction of Edged Weapons in Portrait Paintings of the Napoleonic Wars
- “Debits and Credits” – The Sales Ledger and Accounting Book of the “Gebrüder Weyersberg” Trading Company from 1801 to 1807
- „Vous êtes venus dans ces contrées…” – The Sword of the Egyptian Institute
One of the six given lectures
Sabers- not my area of expertise, but I learned a lot
Since I had no knowledge of sabers at all, there was a lot for me to learn. Interestingly, we were able to identify some similarities between the sabers on display and Japanese swords.
As between lectures, we did our best to explain Japanese swords and tsuba to visitors and other collectors at our booth. It seems we succeeded, as we’ve been invited back next year—and, of course, we’re also scheduled to give a lecture.