Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post

Jens Nordlunde · 27th April 2019, 03:32 PM

A lot of blades were imported from countries like Spain, Portugal, Germany, England, Venice and other countries.
To this comes that the Indian's copied a lot of blades, and they did it so well that Bernier wrote that the copies were very well done, and could easily be taken for European blades.
The markings are, like Jim wrote, pure Indian, but when it comes to the blade it could be a copy, it is hard to say from the pictures. If it is a copy the weapon smith would not have made a ricasso - or it would have looked like a copy of an European blade.

27th April 2019, 03:32 PM	#4
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,713	A lot of blades were imported from countries like Spain, Portugal, Germany, England, Venice and other countries. To this comes that the Indian's copied a lot of blades, and they did it so well that Bernier wrote that the copies were very well done, and could easily be taken for European blades. The markings are, like Jim wrote, pure Indian, but when it comes to the blade it could be a copy, it is hard to say from the pictures. If it is a copy the weapon smith would not have made a ricasso - or it would have looked like a copy of an European blade. Last edited by Jens Nordlunde; 27th April 2019 at 09:30 PM.