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Old 13th October 2010, 09:14 PM   #6
Dmitry
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Thats a beauty Dmitry! (5 Ball to match the sword?)
Any with smooth horn grips that you know of?
Not horn, but ebony. Horn wasn't used much, if at all, by the English,for grips on their swords and dirks, at least during the Napoleonic period.
As a matter of fact, ebony-gripped dirks are rarer than the bone/ivory ones.
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