Clippership Cutty Sark Running Before The Wind, By John Stobart (1929-2023)

Schooner THOMAS W. LAWSON, 1902. The only 7 masted schooner ever built. Could sail 16-18 nots, faster than steamships of the time at ~ 9 knots. She carried primarily coal and oil in barrels. She sank off the Isles of Scilly, in a storm on Friday, 13th of December, 1907, killing all but two of her crew of eighteen and a harbor pilot. Her cargo of 58,000 barrels of light paraffin oil caused one of the first large marine oil spills. Thomas William Lawson (February 26, 1857 – February 7, 1925)[1] was an American businessman and writer. Lawson, who was intensely superstitious, wrote the novel "Friday the Thirteenth".

Christmas at Sea, by Anton Otto Fischer, 1926

Janissary's sword (Janitscharenschwert) mod. 1729. Saxony. Introduced by Augustus the Strong, who had a select unit of "Janissaries" modeled after the Ottomans.

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schembart carnival costumes

illustrations from a schembartbuch, depicting costumes from the nuremberg 'schembartlauf' festival from the years 1449 to 1539. nuremberg, c. 1551-1600

source: Nuremberg, GNM, Hs 5664