Souvenir sword ?

cannonmn · 30th December 2011, 05:41 PM

I know very little about swords but have spent much time separating historical items from items intended as decoration, and I suspect this is one of the latter. It does have some age, cound perhaps be late 19th c., when the noveau riche were spending for "old money-like artifacts" to dress up their mansions. I think the giveaway is the strictly 2-dimensional guard which is great for hanging on the wall easily but would not protect the bearer's wrist from most blows in combat.

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30th December 2011, 05:41 PM	#4
cannonmn Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 161	I know very little about swords but have spent much time separating historical items from items intended as decoration, and I suspect this is one of the latter. It does have some age, cound perhaps be late 19th c., when the noveau riche were spending for "old money-like artifacts" to dress up their mansions. I think the giveaway is the strictly 2-dimensional guard which is great for hanging on the wall easily but would not protect the bearer's wrist from most blows in combat.