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Portuguese navigator sword for comments

31st December 2017, 03:16 PM

fernando

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cerjak

Congratulations Fernando ,The pictures are much more better ! Interesting sword and very special hilt a bit crudely made.
best ...

Merci Jean-Luc,
Indeed these were battle swords for low rank soldiers, and forged en masse in both homeland and colonial arsenals to cover for large needs in the period; there are versions even more crude... but still the genuine stuff.

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Last edited by fernando; 31st December 2017 at 06:46 PM.

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