Help pls. on 15th-17th C. cutlass & scimitar

[Jim McDougall]

Hi Miguel,
Pretty good job working on the translations, as if I am any authority ..I dont speak or read it either, but can sometimes cobble a general overview.
Not sure about the pidgeon house thing All I know is in the 17th century, Palomares put together some boxed panels of illustrations of makers marks, then numerically labeled them.

On the Conquistador book...the Osprey titles are great....work excellent for me with limited library space...and I just ordered 'The Conquistadors' by David Nicolle (also an Osprey title)...I just like Nicolle's work (my opinion, easy on the critical reviews everybody .

We've really got a pretty good discussion going here, and I spent most of the day yesterday looking everywhere for info on Tizona and Colada, and think I'll put that on a different thread to see if we can get deeper into these two swords by that reference in the thread title.

All the best,
Jim

[migueldiaz]

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

... We've really got a pretty good discussion going here, and I spent most of the day yesterday looking everywhere for info on Tizona and Colada, and think I'll put that on a different thread to see if we can get deeper into these two swords by that reference in the thread title.

Jim, great idea! And I'll follow that other new thread with great interest for sure

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by migueldiaz

Jim, great idea! And I'll follow that other new thread with great interest for sure

Thanks Lorenz! I'm looking forward to developing that too. Kept me up most of the night thinking on it......curiouser and curiouser!!!

Best regards,
Jim

[migueldiaz]

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Fernando is most modest, and by 'unschooled' simply, in my understanding, means not necessarily formally schooled in degree. In my personal estimation, often self education can exceed such categorized results....well illustrated by the knowledge he openly shares here!

Amen, Jim All of us had our formal education, but nothing beats passion in (informally) educating ourselves in the thing we really like.

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Thanks Lorenz! I'm looking forward to developing that too. Kept me up most of the night thinking on it......curiouser and curiouser!!!

Jim, as we are dealing here with supposedly the world's most famous sword/s, I'm not surprised. And I'll try to contribute to that other thread with whatever significant info I'll stumble upon.

Best regards!

Lorenz =)

[migueldiaz]

Maybe these excerpts from Medieval Swordsmanship will also help in the discussion:

[migueldiaz]

Here's the rest of the excerpts (in which only one page will be attached per post, as sometimes if the attachments are many per post, the sequence gets jumbled). So this would be page 2, and so forth, and so on:

[migueldiaz]

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