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Late medieval poleaxes are crossed behind a heater-shaped shield bearing a heraldic lion in this original design by Richard H. Fay.

This design featuring a distinctly Irish ring pommel sword is based on swords carried by Irish kerns in a 16th century woodcut now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Here the sword is combined with bands of Celtic-style knotwork.

This drawing by Richard H.Fay, which originally appeared as a black and white illustration in Flashing Swords, Issue 11, features three decorated sword hilts of the Viking Age.

This original illustration by Richard H. Fay depicts a bronze Corinthian helmet, one of the types of protective headgear worn by ancient Greek warriors.

Based on several knightly memorial brasses of the first half of the fifteenth century, this image displays the nomenclature of the various pieces of plate armour worn by English knights circa 1430.

In this original illustration by Richard H. Fay, two long-hafted Viking-era Danish Axes are displayed crossed between two plaitwork bands based on a design from a Viking Age stone sculpture on the Isle of Man.

This original illustration by Richard H. Fay depicts a late medieval poleaxe, richly decorated in chiselled gilt bronze, said to be a weapon once owned by the Yorkist warrior King Edward IV.

A pair of long-shafted broad-bladed thrusting spears and a pair of lighter and shorter javelins are displayed crossed behind an ancient Celtic oval shield in this original illustration by Richard H. Fay. The shield design is based, in part, on the Celtic shields depicted on the Triumphal Arch of Orange, France.

This original illustration by Richard H. Fay depicts a Viking-era sword with a trilobate pommel based on one in the British Museum displayed between two plaitwork bands based on a design from a Viking Age stone sculpture on the Isle of Man.

A Norman-period sword with a Brazil nut pommel, a long-bladed "Great Sword" or "Sword of War" of the 13th or 14th century, and an acutely pointed thrusting sword of the Late Middle Ages appear side-by-side in this original illustration by Richard H. Fay.

In this original illustration by Richard H. Fay, the Lady of the Lake holds the mystical sword Excalibur, sheathed in its magical scabbard, aloft from the surface of her watery abode. The sword and scabbard are based on a British sword of circa 50 BC, which would already have been ancient in the Arthurian Era.

This illustration depicts five different polearms used on the battlefields of sixteenth century Europe. From left to right are: a halberd, an ahlspiess or awl pike, a langdebeve partisan, a military fork, and a bill.

This original illustration by Richard H. Fay depicts a medieval crossbow with a composite bow stave, plus two crossbow bolts.

A richly-decorated ancient Celtic sword sits between two bands of Celtic-style knotwork in this original illustration by Richard H. Fay. The sword in this illustration is based on one from Kirkburn, Yorkshire, now at the British Museum.