Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Katzbalgers and Related Landsknecht Swords

Matchlock · 14th May 2009, 06:08 PM

From:

Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re mlitari (On military equipment), 1512.

Note the curved quillons as a pre-stage to the figure 8 Katzbalger quillons which do not seem to have evolved before ca. 1510.

Michael

14th May 2009, 06:08 PM	#105
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	From: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re mlitari (On military equipment), 1512. Note the curved quillons as a pre-stage to the figure 8 Katzbalger quillons which do not seem to have evolved before ca. 1510. Michael Attached Images