Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Smallsword with interesting markings for comment

Hotspur · 21st February 2013, 03:01 AM

I dunno, the blade could easily be in the mid eighteenth century range. See Bashford&Dean for a similar cross section. #66
http://swordlinks.com/courtswords/intro.html
http://swordlinks.com/courtswords/p14.html

Granted that the blade decoration is somewhat different and a different origin. Considering the other roccoco elements, I would not necessarily date the hilt and blade as seperate entities.

Here is a shard of one of those blades I could not resist.

Cheers

GC

21st February 2013, 03:01 AM	#7
Hotspur Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nipmuc USA Posts: 489	I dunno, the blade could easily be in the mid eighteenth century range. See Bashford&Dean for a similar cross section. #66 http://swordlinks.com/courtswords/intro.html http://swordlinks.com/courtswords/p14.html Granted that the blade decoration is somewhat different and a different origin. Considering the other roccoco elements, I would not necessarily date the hilt and blade as seperate entities. Here is a shard of one of those blades I could not resist. Cheers GC Attached Images