United States Patent 229426 Fencing Foil by B E De Tuscan August 25 1942 cigar wall art and survivals

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The scene reads like a society column rendered in silver gelatin

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fixed in ink while the ledgers of the dead were still being tallied

United States Patent 229426 Fencing Foil by B E De Tuscan August 25 1942 cigar wall art and survivalsUnited States Patent 229426 Fencing Foil by B E De Tuscan August 25 1942 De Tuscan's wartime patent drawing dissects the foil into its essential anatomy pommel, grip, guard, and tapered blade the inventor's diagram of a weapon refined for the salle in an age when American fencing masters still drilled students in the grammar of point and parry. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark