Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - And Another Colonial Spanish Sword;Mexican or Philippine ?

drac2k · 10th February 2019, 05:06 PM

I think that we are now all in agreement that the blade is Mexican or Central American and Jim did bring out an interesting point about the handle resembling that of the corvo knife from Chile, I believe that I was wrong to attribute it as being Colonial Mexican.
The blade has the consistency of the machetes that were mass produced for the South American market by Collins and Weyersberg Hermanos in the 1870s and onward and since Mexico gained her independence from Spain in 1821, I should state that the sword design was Colonial Spanish as opposed to being pre-1821, Colonial Mexican.

10th February 2019, 05:06 PM	#8
drac2k Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 1,175	I think that we are now all in agreement that the blade is Mexican or Central American and Jim did bring out an interesting point about the handle resembling that of the corvo knife from Chile, I believe that I was wrong to attribute it as being Colonial Mexican. The blade has the consistency of the machetes that were mass produced for the South American market by Collins and Weyersberg Hermanos in the 1870s and onward and since Mexico gained her independence from Spain in 1821, I should state that the sword design was Colonial Spanish as opposed to being pre-1821, Colonial Mexican.