Hunting Sword no1

M ELEY · 21st November 2017, 05:02 AM

Excellent to see this old thread resurrected. It answered a question that had been bugging me for years. In an old auction catalog I had, there was a brass hilted so called dog head English cutlass, ca. 1690-1700 with the FDL marking on it. At the time, I was quite flummoxed by it and kept wondering if it had been captured and re-stamped in France. With the excellent information presented here, I now have my answer-

21st November 2017, 05:02 AM	#1
M ELEY Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,166	Excellent to see this old thread resurrected. It answered a question that had been bugging me for years. In an old auction catalog I had, there was a brass hilted so called dog head English cutlass, ca. 1690-1700 with the FDL marking on it. At the time, I was quite flummoxed by it and kept wondering if it had been captured and re-stamped in France. With the excellent information presented here, I now have my answer-