United States Patent 229426 Fencing Foil by B E De Tuscan August 25 1942 cigar wall art when the great herds had

when the great herds had already been reduced to memory and rumor across the plains

the war scarcely a month old

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

The likeness carries the weight of a man who fought by arithmetic

United States Patent 229426 Fencing Foil by B E De Tuscan August 25 1942 cigar wall art when the great herds hadUnited 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