Smallsword for I D

[Iliad]

Gentlemen, thank you all so much for the informative replies to my question.
I had no idea that Smallswords were so interesting! This is so much fun that I will post threads on other items in my collection!
Brian (Iliad)

[Jim McDougall]

You're very welcome Brian...thank you for posting this! and very much looking forward to your posting others. As I noted initially, smallswords are are one of the more difficult weapons to assess as styles were so much copied and followed a close standard, but apparantly there are subtleties which help in identifying.
It is indeed fun as we all find these guidelines and clues together, and again, this topic runs closely with the threads on fencing foils, another relatively esoteric area of weapons collecting which we are compiling data on here.

All the best,
Jim