Smallsword for I D

Jim McDougall · 2nd December 2008, 12:30 AM

You're very welcome Brian...thank you for posting this! and very much looking forward to your posting others. As I noted initially, smallswords are are one of the more difficult weapons to assess as styles were so much copied and followed a close standard, but apparantly there are subtleties which help in identifying.
It is indeed fun as we all find these guidelines and clues together, and again, this topic runs closely with the threads on fencing foils, another relatively esoteric area of weapons collecting which we are compiling data on here.

All the best,
Jim

2nd December 2008, 12:30 AM	#10
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,192	You're very welcome Brian...thank you for posting this! and very much looking forward to your posting others. As I noted initially, smallswords are are one of the more difficult weapons to assess as styles were so much copied and followed a close standard, but apparantly there are subtleties which help in identifying. It is indeed fun as we all find these guidelines and clues together, and again, this topic runs closely with the threads on fencing foils, another relatively esoteric area of weapons collecting which we are compiling data on here. All the best, Jim