The Black Saber

[MatthewGMK]

Originally Posted by ariel

The saber is a curious mix of Turkish Pala blade, Hungarian/Polish early variant of a handguard and Polish thumb ring. Looks powerful and vicious, but..... I am with Jim: no interest in modern recreations.

Nevertheless, Ariel, your observations agree with Paolo's inspiration
for delivering a saber that bespoke more than just a single time period,
but kinda' embraced the legendary sword's evolution.

A picture of my own ... B-)