Glen,
I had recalled this article, which was published also in "Man at Arms" magazine, and have been frantically trying to find it......so THANK YOU so much.
The author, Erik Goldstein, placed one of the most resounding statements in the world of arms study:
"...complacency with long held and extensively published notions has all too often stood in the way of the true understanding of a particular weapon and its importance to history".
That is the very reason behind the lifetime of obsessive research I have spent, and thankfully shared by you and so many of the guys here.
Will, that is a perspective I had not thought of. However these rings in the structural circumstance I am referring to seem invariably on British dragoon swords....not directly Scottish.
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