Pirate Clothing and Collectibles - What are they?

Unofrtunately, there is not really a form of weapon, clothing or personal item that can associated specifically with pirates due to them acquiring their personal belongings by stealing from the various ships they conquered. Their belongings were typical of the era in which they lived, and of the nationality of the ships that the pirates seized. However, there is a pirate ‘look’ that many people like to emulate. The odd shaped hat, heavy coat, neck scarf and eye patch are typical pirate apparel, and these look quite impressive at pirate themed party or outside barbecue.

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Pirate's Sword, Scabbard and Flintlock

Which weapons were most used by pirates?

Other than swords and scabbards, a pirate would typically use a gun called a flintlock. A flintlock is a wide mouthed ‘blunderbus’ design, though the design changed according to the country of origination. Most 18th century pirates were Spanish, Indian, French and English, though there were pirates of every nationality, including Portuguese, and North African. The Corsairs were French and the Barbary Corsairs were Turks.

They tracked ships for days deciding whether to attack them or not, but rarely used shots since that would damage the vessel that they wished to capture, not to destroy. They used more skilled tactics to capture ships. They would fly a friendly flag as they approached a ship, then strike it and raise the pirate flag, the skull and crossbones. They would then fire one shot to persuade the captain of the competing vessel to strike colors and surrender. In that way they took the ship complete and none of the treasure on board was damaged.

A typical pirate cutlass had a thick, slightly curved blade just over two feet in length. There were many variants to this basic design, and many of these are available as replicas.

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Pirate Clothing and Replica Weapons

Can you name those Pirates?



Famous pirates include Henry Morgan, known to have shackled a woman to a stove and roasted her for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of her jewelry, and L’Ollonaise, whose favorite pastime was tying a cord around a someones head across the eyes, and tightening it until their eyes popped out. Pirates were not like Johnny Depp, the swashbuckling hero of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’. One punishment that is myth is ‘walking the plank’. This practice was invented by novelists and there are no actual records of these activities ever happening. You will most likely never find planks among the pirate collectibles available online or in any store.





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Wyatt Earp Gun - His Famous Six Shooter

Let's talk about Wyatt Earp's Famous Gun


One imagines Wyatt stopping outlaws in their tracks more than a century after the historic gunfight at the OK Corral. One also wonders what those last thirty years must have been like for a man who saw the frontier close, gave up his guns and horses, and became part of a world in which the changes made were total and spectacular, seeing the coming of electric lights, telephones, motion pictures, airplanes, automobiles, radio, machine guns, battleships, comic strips, neon signs, zippers, etc. At the time, these key players had no idea that they had just been involved in the most famous gun fight in the history of the wild and wicked West.



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Wyatt Earp Guns - The Untold Story of the OK Corral

The Untold Story - Showdown The OK Corral

In 1881 a feud developed between the Earps and the Clanton gang, resulting in the celebrated gunfight at the OK Corral. The fight was a prearranged duel between two gangs that wanted control of Tombstone, beginning with Ike Clanton hurling a challenge at the Earps to meet him and his gang at the OK corral. Guns were drawn and shots were fired, the first shot coming from the volatile Doc Holliday.

The shootout was over in 30 seconds, which is one-tenth the time it took to show the sequence in the 1957 film Gunfight at the OK Corral. Contrary to the movies’ depiction that Doc Holliday died at the OK Corral, he breathed his last breath on his sickbed six years after the shoot-out and fourteen years after his doctor had told him he would die of tuberculosis. The only ones who met their ends at the OK Corral were Frank and Tom McLaury and Billy Clanton, all belonging to the Clanton Gang, and those wounded were Holliday and Virgil and Morgan Earp. The name ‘Gunfight at the OK Corral’ is presumably a reminder of where the famous showdown between Wyatt Earp’s group and the Clanton gang was held, but it’s misleading.

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Wyatt Earp Gun - The OK Corral

Showdown at The OK Corral

The gunfight at the OK Corral is one of the cornerstones of American mythology, having been filmed more often than any other western subject save the story of Billy the Kid. The story of ‘the most famous lawman of the wild west’ started with the gunfight at the OK Corral, but would attain the status of a legend only after the publication of Stuart Lake’s 1931 book Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. No other incident in the history of the American west is as beclouded in misconception as the century-old Gunfight at the OK Corral involving the Earps and the Clantons. More to come...

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Wyatt Earp Collectibles

Wyatt Earp is best known as the fearless frontier lawman of Wichita and Dodge City, Kansas, and as principal survivor of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Wyatt Earp is the major subject of various movies, TV shows, biographies and works of fiction, and arguably the most famous lawman of the Old West. Wyatt Earp is made to embody all the spirit of boldness and self-reliance that most modern audiences find secretly satisfying. Wyatt Earp’s story is surrounded by controversy.

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