Czech Fencing (part I)

I am in Czechia with my girlfriend. We are staying between her sister's house and her late mother's old apartment, both in the beautiful medieval town of Cesky Krumlov. While browsing through the bookcase in said apartment, we found a bound collection of old issues of the women's magazine Eva, and in the August 1932 issue of it, an article about fencing, complete with a great picture of the then Czechoslovac National Women's Fencing Champion. Her foil (what else? women's liberation had not yet reached fencing in the 1930s) is really interesting: its bell-guard, seen from behind, seems to be worked in the shape of a flower or sea-shell; it has a french grip wrapped in a leather strip, and a metal loop for the index finger. I will post a translation of the article soon, but the photo will have to wait longer, as I am rather limited in my ability to upload photos from my digital camera to the internet.