Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Swiss lionhead saber with brass covered hilt

midelburgo · 22nd August 2022, 10:07 PM

It seems I made a little fumble.
I have been putting together a file of images of Spanish late XVIIth to late XVIIIth hilts covered with two brass or silver cylindrical pieces. Sometimes they meet at the middle sometimes they dont. They used the same kind on knifes up to the end of XIXth century
I also remembered a lion head saber, at the Luis Calvo chapter on early Spanish c1700 dragoon swords (bottom right). So called Washington Spanish swords, bottom left.

http://www.catalogacionarmas.com/public/48-DragS.pdf

So I saw this saber and I won it.

Now I know it is actually a Swiss saber. Spain never had Swiss mercenary cavalry. I still have to research French units in the Spanish sucession war.

Relevant threads:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20946

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27896

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18464

22nd August 2022, 10:07 PM	#1
midelburgo Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 248	Swiss lionhead saber with brass covered hilt It seems I made a little fumble. I have been putting together a file of images of Spanish late XVIIth to late XVIIIth hilts covered with two brass or silver cylindrical pieces. Sometimes they meet at the middle sometimes they dont. They used the same kind on knifes up to the end of XIXth century I also remembered a lion head saber, at the Luis Calvo chapter on early Spanish c1700 dragoon swords (bottom right). So called Washington Spanish swords, bottom left. http://www.catalogacionarmas.com/public/48-DragS.pdf So I saw this saber and I won it. Now I know it is actually a Swiss saber. Spain never had Swiss mercenary cavalry. I still have to research French units in the Spanish sucession war. Relevant threads: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20946 http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27896 http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18464 Attached Images Last edited by midelburgo; 22nd August 2022 at 10:46 PM.