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fernando · 15th April 2013, 02:25 PM

Thank you Jim,
I was trying to be so descriptive and discursive as someone i know

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We can also read about espadas de arrasto (dragging swords) used by Portuguese officers in the first quarter XIX century. Period swagger went to the extreme of welding iron reinforcements in the chape guard. In page 125 of AS ARMAS & OS BARÕES we can see a Militias Officer sabre with a brass scabbard that has been so punished by the dragging that its chape guard consumed its material trhough to the scabbard end.

15th April 2013, 02:25 PM	#3
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Thank you Jim, I was trying to be so descriptive and discursive as someone i know . We can also read about espadas de arrasto (dragging swords) used by Portuguese officers in the first quarter XIX century. Period swagger went to the extreme of welding iron reinforcements in the chape guard. In page 125 of AS ARMAS & OS BARÕES we can see a Militias Officer sabre with a brass scabbard that has been so punished by the dragging that its chape guard consumed its material trhough to the scabbard end.