American Sword with 1803 Style Cross Guard

[Hotspur]

re Ketland and crested backstrap examples. I say bite me and I disagree. We use the term for convenience and I use ketbck for my own file (see link) but only because Mowbray lists it as similar to the floating pommel with the ridge we see on the early "Ketlands" My old clipboard ketbcks
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...W8?usp=sharing

I can show you a similar example in the same book in the US section towards the back and then show you a copy of that marked to Widmann of Philadelphia. A sword manufactured in Germany. So tell me why we should list a German crested backstrap as a Ketland.

My crested backstrap below (and in the folder).

Cheers

GC