Styrian basket hilted sword and Styrian dusage

serdar · 14th December 2025, 07:33 PM

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You are right, yes schiavonas are world for them, baskets are usualy made in Italy, but lots of them are made in Dalmatia, and have bosancica, or croatian cirilic names of smiths on them.
For blades they used apsolutely everything.

Left blade indeed looks like rosary, and right blade i similar to kaskara but in hand is very diferent, there are records in Dubrovnik archives of bladesmith who worked for venetian republic and made that kind of blades with 3 and four fullers, those files are earlies that mention name due spadi schiavonesca from 14 century, S shaped schiavonesca sword.

Unfortunately, nothing is 100%, i would like for those blades to have punches or marks, but i know that lots of them are not marked, by my feel and experience till now im 99% sure they are genuine, they are also publicised in italy, and are now in first quarter of the next year planed for exibition and catalog, allso they are from well known old collection, but for the amount they cost, 100% is needed.

As is in life, one must decide and has a final word, and bears all the consequences.
So by the words of the Kramer, Rock on! 😁

14th December 2025, 07:33 PM	#14
serdar Member Join Date: Feb 2023 Posts: 224	Victrix[/QUOTE You are right, yes schiavonas are world for them, baskets are usualy made in Italy, but lots of them are made in Dalmatia, and have bosancica, or croatian cirilic names of smiths on them. For blades they used apsolutely everything. Left blade indeed looks like rosary, and right blade i similar to kaskara but in hand is very diferent, there are records in Dubrovnik archives of bladesmith who worked for venetian republic and made that kind of blades with 3 and four fullers, those files are earlies that mention name due spadi schiavonesca from 14 century, S shaped schiavonesca sword. Unfortunately, nothing is 100%, i would like for those blades to have punches or marks, but i know that lots of them are not marked, by my feel and experience till now im 99% sure they are genuine, they are also publicised in italy, and are now in first quarter of the next year planed for exibition and catalog, allso they are from well known old collection, but for the amount they cost, 100% is needed. As is in life, one must decide and has a final word, and bears all the consequences. So by the words of the Kramer, Rock on! 😁