Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Ethiopian Sabre and Mystery sword just won on eBay..comments please?

tom hyle · 22nd September 2007, 09:21 PM

The straight sword seems European/Eurocolonial. Are you sure there's not a wooden handle under a wire wrap there? The cross-shaped guard does seem Turk/Persian derived. Did it once have a knucklebow, or why the asymetry to quillon and pommel?

22nd September 2007, 09:21 PM	#2
tom hyle Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Houston, TX, USA Posts: 1,254	The straight sword seems European/Eurocolonial. Are you sure there's not a wooden handle under a wire wrap there? The cross-shaped guard does seem Turk/Persian derived. Did it once have a knucklebow, or why the asymetry to quillon and pommel?