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M ELEY · 26th September 2010, 10:48 AM

A very nice piece, Valjhan. Where did you acquire it? I really love the openwork steel guard. It is a beautifully stylized European smallsword (possibly French, but could just as easily be any western Euro country), cut-steel hilt with vestigial pas d'an and split disc shaped (vs the earlier cup-hilted) guard. It's dating is probably in the 1790-1810 range, as earlier examples had large looped pas d'an and rounded pommels vs the later urn shaped examples such as this. The blade on it is fairly typical, 3 sided, but longer than most, suggesting a true fighter vs some of the dressier swords of this era. My 2 cents- BTW, is it for sale (

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26th September 2010, 10:48 AM	#2
M ELEY Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,070	A very nice piece, Valjhan. Where did you acquire it? I really love the openwork steel guard. It is a beautifully stylized European smallsword (possibly French, but could just as easily be any western Euro country), cut-steel hilt with vestigial pas d'an and split disc shaped (vs the earlier cup-hilted) guard. It's dating is probably in the 1790-1810 range, as earlier examples had large looped pas d'an and rounded pommels vs the later urn shaped examples such as this. The blade on it is fairly typical, 3 sided, but longer than most, suggesting a true fighter vs some of the dressier swords of this era. My 2 cents- BTW, is it for sale ( )