Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Colichemardes: re-started from hi-jacked thread

cornelistromp · 30th December 2020, 10:21 AM

attached an example of a colichemard blade without a fuller 1740, and a precursor of the colichemard blade with a reinforced forte 1650.
Maybe by colichemarde you mean something else? Can you post an example of a colichemarde with a parallel groove/fuller?

To me a colichemarde blade/smallsword is a blade where the strongest part, il forte, of the blade is wider than the rest.( il terso and I debole)
A development that probably started in France between 1670-1690. (seitz blankwaffenII) the name colichemarde probably comes from the inventor, but this cannot be proven, General Otto Wilhelm von Koenigsmarck. (Aylward, 1946).
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30th December 2020, 10:21 AM	#2
cornelistromp Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,057	attached an example of a colichemard blade without a fuller 1740, and a precursor of the colichemard blade with a reinforced forte 1650. Maybe by colichemarde you mean something else? Can you post an example of a colichemarde with a parallel groove/fuller? To me a colichemarde blade/smallsword is a blade where the strongest part, il forte, of the blade is wider than the rest.( il terso and I debole) A development that probably started in France between 1670-1690. (seitz blankwaffenII) the name colichemarde probably comes from the inventor, but this cannot be proven, General Otto Wilhelm von Koenigsmarck. (Aylward, 1946). best, Attached Images Last edited by cornelistromp; 30th December 2020 at 10:32 AM.