- Del Tin's History
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- Since 1965 we have been manufacturing,
with the utmost care in our work-shop in Maniago, Italy, different kinds of replicas of
antique weapons and armours.
- During all these years of the activity
of our firm we selected a great number of pieces which are kept in museums and private
collections. We have analyzed and perfectly reproduced them. Our idea was to
manufacture accurate replicas which should not be inferior in quality to the original
pieces of their time.
- Nowadays the Del Tin Armi Antiche
Company, led by Fulvio Del Tin, offers a wide range of replicas of antique weapons from
the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century and in particular swords and daggers which are
reproduced according to the original weapons. Sometimes we use the iconography
of the time to create the pieces which don't exist any longer.
- Collectors from all over the world
have appreciated and bought our replicas which are also shown and used in some important
museums such as the Royal Armouries Museum of Leeds (UK). The replicas of
weapons and armours of the Del Tin's Collection have also been shown, for educational
purposes, in many successful exhibitions which have drawn the attention of a great number
of people and have been appreciated by the common people as well as by experts.
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- The Del Tin's replicas have recently
been used in some films such as Braveheart and Robin Hood which won the Oscar
prize. Thanks to the serious and accurate manufacturing, the swords own very
good characteristics and can be used in medieval swordmanship as they have been tested for
a long time by groups who practice the art of swordmanship in Europe and in USA. However
we must strongly recommend, for those who want to use our weapons, to use them carefully
and in the proper way to avoid running any risk.
- All our sword and dagger blades are
made of good tempered Chrome-Vanadium steel with a hardness of 50 HCR. Fulvio Del Tin
himself tempers the steel, a very delicate operation which depends the good manufacturing
of the blade on.
- We may say, with no doubt, that our
sword would have been suitable even for a medieval knight who entrusted his life and
fortune with his blade tempering.
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