Forum: European Armoury
8th July 2024, 01:58 PM
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ESPADA ANCHA PDF
Attached is the PDF for the paper:
"The Espada Ancha or Machete of Northern Mexican Frontiers and Spanish Southwest from 18th Through 19th Centuries".
This was published last year in the Swedish...
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd May 2024, 03:36 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th April 2024, 07:44 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
29th April 2024, 03:47 PM
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Thank you so much Capn! What an incredible...
Thank you so much Capn! What an incredible 'shell' that is!!!
Great insight into these types of cutlasses, and how key this is to the scope of the espada ancha, which of course evolved it seems from...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th April 2024, 07:33 PM
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LINK TO ESPADA ANCHA ARTICLE IN FULL;
HERE IS THE FULL ARTICLE: Courtesy of Staffan Kinman, Director, Swedish Arms Society, Livrustkammeren, Stockholm, 2023.
http://www.vikingsword.com/ethsword/espadaan/McDougall Espada Ancha...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th April 2024, 01:11 AM
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Actually its good to see life on this thread...
Actually its good to see life on this thread after it has lain in state since December!
With the Bowies, its important to note that the familiar large clipped point types were made that way, and I...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th April 2024, 03:11 PM
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Thank you so much Keith!
Yes I remember that...
Thank you so much Keith!
Yes I remember that beauty!
This seems to fall into the category of naval cutlass alright.
As noted,the Spanish espada ancha, as I point out in the article, is likely...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th April 2024, 09:46 PM
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Onward!
The espada ancha is probably one of the most under researched sword types in the collecting world, and surprisingly ubiquitous, yet virtually going unnoticed. There has been little published on them,...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th December 2023, 02:05 AM
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Thank you so much Capn! Though an apparently...
Thank you so much Capn! Though an apparently seldom traveled field of study and collecting, the history is very important, so glad I had the opportunity to do this.
With the book on pirate...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th November 2023, 08:01 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
15th November 2023, 03:33 PM
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The Espada Ancha
I have had personally a very much lifelong fascination with these typically short, heavy bladed swords of Spanish colonial America and Mexico, which began in my youth in Southern California. I had...
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