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Originally Posted by kronckew
Hi Jim, was just pushing the boundary - I don't really think that one is a briquet. Maybe the definition should include 'post french revolutionary', 'ribbed brass grip and rounded D guard, 'short single edged hanger blade'.  |
Its funny, maybe I've been in this game too long. When I first started researching this sword and of course the French ones, there was no doubt about what a briquet was. In the following decades, any discourse toward one of these brass, D guard, ribbed grip hangers regardless of what country it came from was a 'briquet'.
The term has been indelibly ingrained in the arms lexicon this many years without question.
What is odd is how long these swords have simply remained unexplained as far as their actual place among British edged weapons, and who really used them. There are many of these kinds of anomalies in the study of edged weapons that have simply remained accepted/assumed to be exactly what the old references say they were.