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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
Thank you Dirk! Then perhaps even tenuous possibility of Culloden (1746) association in degree (by type) as there were some French contingents there as Jacobites. Were turks heads used on grips that late?
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Turkish knots were still in use on some officers swords, on troopers mostly wire or solid brass hilts, here is a French model 1734. The first French model with a brass hilt is as early as 1680 but it has a single guard plate.
There was a cross-pollination between the Jacobins and the French, in the 18th century the French King had Jacobins in his personal guard with typical Scottish Basket hilt swords with some a blade with "Vive Le Roy"