Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Pre Culloden English dragoon basket hilt?

werecow · Yesterday, 01:39 PM

I did a bit of searching and I think this is the video that I had a vague recollection of:

https://youtu.be/aQKNy7ze2jQ?t=222

He talks about the angle at which the arms of the basket hilt join at the pommel and how that changed in the Victorian era from earlier swords. But I guess this is more relevant to dating later basket hilts.

Yesterday, 01:39 PM	#6
werecow Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Leiden, NL Posts: 581	I did a bit of searching and I think this is the video that I had a vague recollection of: https://youtu.be/aQKNy7ze2jQ?t=222 He talks about the angle at which the arms of the basket hilt join at the pommel and how that changed in the Victorian era from earlier swords. But I guess this is more relevant to dating later basket hilts.