Re: firearm training + LEEDS ROYAL ARMOURIES

Just a faint "ding" of memory here, but I seem to recall that Ian Bottomley
of the Leeds Royal Armouries has an interest in this. Perhaps a look at
their website might reveal something? I haven't heard anything about Ian
for seemingly years now - anybody heard anything about him??

Barry Thomas.

----- Original Message -----
From: kelly smith <kellylindawd@...>
To: <samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [samuraihistory] firearm training

i want to know anything thats out there on the japanese matchlocks and how
they were used and by whom.
Please share with me anything you might find out

thank you

Wayne

HI

I have met Ian severaL times over tha pst few years at
the armouries. Always foundhim to be very welcoming
and exstremely friendly even when he dont recogise me
or remember me at first from perevious visits.

My first meeting with him was out of this world, he
not only took me to the storage area but then took me
to the public display and explained what many of the
main items on display were.

He has been most helpful in my (self taught) study of
armour making, it was he would told me to search out
Anthony's armour site. with the site and Ian's one on
one I managed to produce a very nice set of armoured
sleeves.

I have always found him very responsive to emails as
well when I have had questions to ask.

paul


--- Barry Thomas <warlord@...> wrote:


---------------------------------

Just a faint "ding" of memory here, but I seem to
recall that Ian Bottomley
of the Leeds Royal Armouries has an interest in this.
Perhaps a look at
their website might reveal something? I haven't heard
anything about Ian
for seemingly years now - anybody heard anything about
him??

Barry Thomas.

----- Original Message -----
From: kelly smith <kellylindawd@...>
To: <samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [samuraihistory] firearm training

i want to know anything thats out there on the
japanese matchlocks and how
they were used and by whom.
Please share with me anything you might find out

thank you

Wayne






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Hi Folks,

I spoke to Ian a few months back, he's still with us, but is really deep
in to his work at the armouries. Ian is most definitely into firearms,
right down to having reproduced a replica of a rare Japanese wheellock
pistol for himself. And I concur with Paul, he is a terrifically helpful
chap. Without his help our samurai re-enactment project, wouldn't have
even got off the starting blocks. Not only did he spend a day with us
studying the Snows Hill collection, plus numerous trips to see his own,
he lent our armourer one of his own dou to copy, and gave us a lot of
the "insiders" knowledge essential to reproducing high quality replica
arms, armour and clothing. We owe that man a lot:-)

Also as I mentioned in an earlier post, it was he, together with Stephen
Turnbull who were responsible for the presentation of all that new stuff
on the evolution of Japanese firearms at the Armouries a few years back,
blowing the myth of the European responsibility for the introduction of
firearms to the Japanese out of the water, so to speak.

Yours

Dean
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In message <20041017073648.43296.qmail@...>,
Richardson Paul <umaryu@...> writes

> HI
>
> I have met Ian severaL times over tha pst few years at
> the armouries. Always foundhim to be very welcoming
> and exstremely friendly even when he dont recogise me
> or remember me at first from perevious visits.
>
> My first meeting with him was out of this world, he
> not only took me to the storage area but then took me
> to the public display and explained what many of the
> main items on display were.
>
> He has been most helpful in my (self taught) study of
> armour making, it was he would told  me to search out
> Anthony's armour site. with the site and Ian's one on
> one I managed to produce a very nice set of armoured
> sleeves.
>
> I have always found him very responsive to emails as
> well when I have had questions to ask.
>
> paul
>
>
> --- Barry Thomas <warlord@...> wrote:
>
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Just a faint "ding" of memory here, but I seem to
> recall that Ian Bottomley
> of the Leeds Royal Armouries has an interest in this.
> Perhaps a look at
> their website might reveal something?  I haven't heard
> anything about Ian
> for seemingly years now - anybody heard anything about
> him??
>
> Barry Thomas.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kelly smith <kellylindawd@...>
> To: <samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 4:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [samuraihistory] firearm training
>
> i want to know anything thats out there on the
> japanese matchlocks and how
> they were used and by whom.
> Please share with me anything you might find out
>
> thank you
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
>
>
>
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