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Originally Posted by Mark
Thanks, everyone. As always, the forumites are a fountain of information!
One further question: Any idea what the two side-by-side holes are in the guard (visible in the 5th photo in my first post, and the 3nd in my second post)? There is a similar pair at the point where the knuckle guard meets the pommel, barely visible in the 4th photo of my first post. They are hardly decorative, yet are so small I can't imagine their having anything tied through them. I noticed that celtan's very similar sword lacks them.
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I think they are for fixing the leather liner that would have been present inside the guard.
I think you can see the fixing in one of the images on this example...
http://www.oldswords.com/database/vi....php?id=132088
I guess the liner could have been attached differently by each manufacturer?