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Fencing has been an official Olympic sport since the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Women's Foil made its debut at the Paris Games in 1924.

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Jim Carpenter, Director of High Performance for the USFA, 3-time US World Team member, 2-time Pan Am Games medalist in Epee Team, 1996 US Olympic epee team, 3-time US national epee team champion (NYAC) has donated his 1996 Olympic parade warm-up suit, 2 Olympic Sport Festival jackets, 1991 Pan Am Games buckle, a Metropolitan Division gold medal, and a US Sports Festival medal.

Sean McClain, a 2-time U.S. champion (foil & epee), 4-time Jr. Olympic champion (foil & epee), and Empire United fencing coach in New York City, has donated his lame, a US national medal, 2 sports festival medals, his Pan American Games silver medal from 1995, and some great photos from his youth.

James Murray III, son of Hall of Famer James Murray Jr., and Kathryn Murray, granddaughter of the great Columbia and NYAC coach, have donated photos, anecdotes and articles on the legendary fencing figure.

Grant Mitchell, son of the 4-time Olympian & Hall of Famer Maxine Mitchell, has donated an array of patches, Olympic brochures, an autographed copy of American Fencing Magazine and photos of his beloved mother to our Museum.

James Adams of Rockville, Maryland has donated a vintage poster for Stride Rite Shoes that was shot at the old New York Fencers' Club on East 53rd Street. (Lydon House)

Brian Carberry, Olympic memorabilia collector and Southfield School dad, has donated a series of Olympic tickets to fencing events, 2 Olympic Sports Festival medals, autographed copy of Peter Westbrook's book, and an article on Hall of Famer Eugene Hamori.

Columbia University fencing coach George Kolombatovich has donated a first edition of Aldo Nadi's "On Fencing."

Michel Mamlouk, 2-time USFA President, has donated his father's (Joseph Mamlouk) saber circa 1900 when he trained in Alexandria, Egypt with the Italian master, Favia.

Skip Shurtz,1956 Olympian in foil and epee, US national champion in foil and epee, has donated his original scrap books that were started by his mom in the 1930's.

Lee Shelley, Hall of Famer, 3-time US Epee champion, has donated his mask, jacket, pants, glove, socks, shoes, and epee to the Museum.

Kalle Weeks, the 26th President of the USFA, has donated memorabilia from the 2009 Arnold International Classic.

Dave Micahnik, Hall of Famer, Olympian, National champion and coach of University of Pennsylvania for 34 years, has donated his teaching saber for the last 25 years. This saber was hand-made by Hall of Famer and former Penn Coach, Lajos Csiszar.

Kathy Krusen donated two old Uhlmann machines, an old Tokyo Sport "flying saucer" reel and some home made test equipment that Eleanor Turney and Art Turney used in San Francisco.

Peter Devine, 1996 US Olympic foilist, has donated his Atlanta Olympics warm-up jacket.

3-time US Epee champion and Olympian Jon Normile has donated his '92 Barcelona warm-up suit, tank top and US Olympic blazer.

Ted Katzoff, fencing master at Beverly Hills Fencing Club, founder of Westside Fencing Center and Head Coach at Harvard / Westlake School, has donated original photos of Hollywood's Olympian, Ralph Faulkner and his wife, Edith Jane Faulkner as well as the memorial plaque for Edith Jane which originally lived at the Hollywood Boulevard Faulkner Studios, and Ralph Faulkner's US Fencing Hall of Fame award.

Byron Krieger, the Midwest's legendary 3-weapon champion and 2-time Olympian has donated a wonderful collection of photos of him and his wife Jocelyn Ruth Krieger, Byron's 1952 Olympic robe, warm-up jacket from 1956 Olympics, and warm-up suit from the 1957 Maccabi Games.

Robert Van Der Wege, former Head Coach of Minnesota Excalliber Fencing club has donated an historical scrapbook of Minnesota fencing history with many photos of Ferdinand Uebel, the father of Minnesota fencing.

Max Garret, Hall of Fame Coach, and his wife Diana have given the Museum many plaques and awards from City College 1939, University of Illinois Big 10 champions, Penn State, Israel National Fencing Team,State of Florida, the St. Louis Division, the Andrei Spitzer Memorial, the N.C.A.A., the U.S. Fencing/Helms Hall of Fame, 1970 World Championships and more. We also thank Mac and Diana's daughter Esther Garret Solar and her husband Gary Solar.

Joe Pechinsky, the Hall of Fame coach from the Tanner City Fencing Club in Peabody, Massachusetts has donated his black leather jacket to the Museum.

We wish to thank 6-time Olympian, 2-time Olympic finalist, 10-time US foil champion Janice York Romary, her husband Chuck Romary, and their daughter Lisa Romary Mosher for their enormous donation of original photos, awards, certificates, uniforms (including an orange fencing uniform used to teach Steve Allen on his television show in the 1950's) letters, books and posters.

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Axelrod takes Olympic bronze.

The Museum is open to the public
3pm until 8pm, Monday through Thursday
Saturdays 9am until 12 noon

1413 Fairfield Ave Shreveport, LA
(318) 227-7575

Located inside Fairfield Avenue School of Fencing

An introduction to the Museum of American Fencing
by Andy Shaw

Andy Shaw, owner of the Museum of American Fencing introduces some of the items in his collection. Items from Jon Normile, Joe Pechinsky, John Huffman, Jason Rogers, Dave Micahnik

Museum Tour video #2: Max Garret and Leo Nunes

Museum Tour video #3: Janice York Romary

Andy Shaw, the United States Fencing Association's Official Historian, has been collecting, storing, framing, archiving, reproducing, and cataloging the largest private collection on display in the country. While the Museum has received many gracious donations of fencing equipment and uniforms, Andy has been operating this collection at his own expense for many years. The walls of the Fairfield Avenue School of Fencing display many hundreds of these items for all to enjoy.

What are fencers saying about the Museum of American Fencing?

"The site is a beauty!"
Denise O'Connor

Your Museum's website has been for me an amazing surprise . Not only by the way it is organized that permits us to imagine the richess of the museum patrimony, but also for the donations that have been made to it by families of disappeared fencers, or by old (not so much old) excellent fencers, like some friends of me like Carl Borack , Allan Jay, George Kolombatovich... that offered pieces that were certainly precious for them. And, I underline that too, by the young generation of American fencers, world and olympic champions, as a contribution for the promotion of the old sport that they have chosen. You have made a superlative fencing museum and an enormous contribution for our ancient swords sport. Thank you !
JJValarinho
Former president of Portuguese Fencing Federation, member of FIE's commission, organiser of some great competitions like 2002 world championships...

"Your website is excellent - a real labour of love for American fencing."
Malcolm Fare, official historian for the A.F.A. ( British Fencing Association )

"You did a great job with this website. For me, it's like reliving history. Creating a fencing museum is a great idea. Congratulations!"
Steve Sobel, 2-time President of the USFA.

"What you have done is truly amazing. I sincerely thank you for sharing your great knowledge of our sport so unselfishly."
George Kolombatovich, Columbia University Fencing Coach and International Fencing Official