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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2728062, member: 14873&quot;]Please excuse me for intruding in this thread but this post by Sallent brought back some memories for me. A number of years ago I was involved in a couple of amateur productions of Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;Julius Caesar&quot; and one of the problems we faced was obtaining authentic looking gladii (mostly for the Roman soldier extras to wear in Acts IV and V - Phillipi). We solved it by obtaining wooden replicas (very cheap) and staining the blade and pommel dark brown to approximate a sheathed gladius - even wrapped the blade with black electrical tape to simulate scabbard bands. They looked pretty hokey up close but quite realistic to the audience.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/000gladius17.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/000gladius16.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think those inexpensive wooden replica gladii are still available -- they can be made into nice display pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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