Secret Project number 2 or How to keep Thomas Effingham guessing - Golden Rapier Scroll for Thomas of Effingham

Short time frame-ish, as this scroll had to be completed after school let out at the end of June and between my trip to Alaska and Seattle and BEFORE going to Pennsic when it would be given.  Eleanor Catlyng and I worked on the wording together, and I think the words would make Alys MacIntoish very proud. Then Eleanor dived into the Elizabethan secretariat, leaving me space for a cadel and for a figure from a period rapier manual and the medallion of the Order of the Golden Rapier.

Since pen and ink are my forte, it took me just a little over two days to complete it.  I have been practicing my cadels and will dig up the other B I did on another scroll in this time period so it went fairly quickly.  I dressed it up with some flourishes (what I call deely-bops! :-)) and started researching an appropriate two sword master to find a figure to place on the scroll.

This is where I enlisted the help of my cadet, Lucien de Wyntere.   He and I were on instant message on FB while I tried to remember what fencing master Thomas of Effingham studied.  Lucien seemed to think that it was Fiore, so I started looking.  The conversation went like this:

Me:   Fiore sounds right.     Awesome, it is mostly pictures of people neck punching.

Lucien:   LOL.     http://wildgeesefencing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/liberi_2122.jpg

Me:  See what I mean? Junk punching!   But, yes, that is helpful.

Lucien: he was a bastard like that

Then Lucien proceeded to help me find more exemplars:

http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/image/fiore3.jpg

And I found this :  http://www.thearma.org/essays/Fiore/FioreDeiLiberi_StudyGuide.v3.6.pdf

and he found a cleaner version

http://www.lonin.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sword-middle-dente-cinghiaro1.jpg

And the exemplar below:

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So I was off and running.  Take the guy, take the crown off and we're good.

Things to note, I used a crow quill pen for the figure and badge, straight up black and white drawing for the badge and cross-hatching for the Fiore figure.  In this particular case the original was on velum, done with pen and ink with gold highlights.  Since I was not doing a crown on Thomas of Effingham, the pen and ink would suffice.  We use pergamenata, which is a good substitute for velum and a preferred surface for both Eleanor and myself.   I also used a number 1.5 nib for the cadel.

The pictures below show the end product with close ups of certain features. 

The first one is a close up of the Fiore side sword person, given Thomas' hairline and manly beard.  The second picture is the Golden Rapier Badge.

The above two images are the close up of the cadel "B" for Brennan and the photograph of the entire scroll.

Things I would do differently - Take more pictures.