Hi,
in 2005 I bought this sword and since then I have not seen anything like it. Maybe it is a Victorian mongrel. If I remove the branched guard and the ricasso perforated plates, I can imagine I will finish with something similar to the Dutch-Swedish felddegen... but still the pommel will be atypical.
What do you make out of it?
Measurements are something like 117cm total length, 93cm blade and 1495gr total weight. There is a thumb ring. The handle shows wire marks. The front edge seems to have been sharpened more often than the back.
As you can see from the pictures, the hilt is huge and the thing seems to have been constructed to be used with gauntles. It handles nicely with them on.
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