Scour Skull, $33, from Knights Edge

I thought you Skully brides might appreciate this mighty fine character sitting behind your loo. The Scour Skull is made of cold-cast resin and realistically hand-aged and finished for that authentic autopsy bathroom decor!

Knights Edge also sell replica medieval weapons and armour, figurines, books and strange and wonderful knickknacks. I love their London Clink Prison Ball and Chain leg shackles. I’d put a pair of these in the corner of the entrance hall.

I’d just like to take a moment here to step away from my role as shopping blog owner and step into my HEMA greaves. Please remember to check the usage for weapons before using them for reenactment or sport fighting – don’t play around with sharpened swords unless you KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING. Don’t fight other people using sharp weapons even IF THEY INSIST ON IT. If you’re firing crossbows or swinging war axes, watch out for other people standing nearby. I guess ‘don’t play silly-buggers’ sums this up quite nicely. I probably don’t need to say this – but I do anyway, because a friend chopped half his fingers off playing silly-buggers with a sword.

Also, do your own research before buying anything proclaiming to be an ‘authentic replica’). I’m not a sword expert – I fight with them, but I don’t know enough to know a decent replica from a fake – so I can’t tell you if Knight’s Edge make good replicas or not.

If you’re buying a sword for either test-cutting, reenactment, fighting or to hang on the wall, you’d want something that’s as authentic as you can get, right? I’m not saying DON’T use Knights Edge – I’m just saying do your research. And watch out for customs officials – they bite