Need help to identify pommel and guard from sword.

[Hotspur]

Originally Posted by Norman McCormick

Hi busterxxl,
Try arma-dania website, all the hilts shown here are from Danish military swords over approx a hundred year timeline, mid 18thC to mid 19thC. Some have half "hearts".
Regards,
Norman.

P.S. I was always under the impression, rightly or wrongly, that the British "1742" was normally associated with a wooden wire wrapped hilt and the "1751" had the solid fluted brass hilt but I suspect, as in all these things, there is a certain 'fluidity' between the types.

Hi Norm

The ca 1742 for the British example was verbatim from Gilkerson's book and possibly not meant as a model number. Also not described as having a cast grip.

Thanks for the site mentioned reminder. I have that bookmarked

http://www.vaabenhistoriskselskab.dk...a/ad_intro.php

Here is a Swedish museum
http://www.sfhm.se/templates/pages/A...epslanguage=EN

Cheers

GC

[Norman McCormick]

Hi Glen,
The '51' and '42' nomenclature is, as you know, rather ad hoc anyway and can be variable user to user. Thanks for the Swedish Museum website, not one I'd looked at before. To keep on the path of the Danes here is an entry from 'Lyles' 1982.
My Regards,
Norman.