Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - The Falchion or Malchus, the rarest medieval sword

Swordfish · 5th April 2012, 10:04 AM

If you want to acquire a not excavated medieval sword wit a provenance tracing back to medieval times, you will grow old before you get one.
Do you have not excavated medieval swords in your collection?
If you have not at least a half dozen, you will never be able to discriminate genuine swords from fakes without scientific tests. Genuine swords are perfect, fakes are never perfect in all aspects.
The collector mentioned above has more than 20 medieval swords in his collection, among them several from the Alexandria Arsenal.
(the photos you mention were taken in the St. Irene Arsenal in Constantinople, not in Alexandria, the swords were captured in 1517 by the Ottomans. But even counterfeit medieval islamic swords stamped with a Tamga are on the market, though far away from beeing perfect).

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5th April 2012, 10:04 AM	#40
Swordfish Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 129	If you want to acquire a not excavated medieval sword wit a provenance tracing back to medieval times, you will grow old before you get one. Do you have not excavated medieval swords in your collection? If you have not at least a half dozen, you will never be able to discriminate genuine swords from fakes without scientific tests. Genuine swords are perfect, fakes are never perfect in all aspects. The collector mentioned above has more than 20 medieval swords in his collection, among them several from the Alexandria Arsenal. (the photos you mention were taken in the St. Irene Arsenal in Constantinople, not in Alexandria, the swords were captured in 1517 by the Ottomans. But even counterfeit medieval islamic swords stamped with a Tamga are on the market, though far away from beeing perfect). Best Last edited by Swordfish; 5th April 2012 at 03:26 PM.