Forum: European Armoury
17th April 2023, 06:23 PM
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Rain Guards
This is the first time I have seen this term used for many years, and I knew I had found some curious reference to this many years ago. Unfortunately while I kept images of a leather example of one...
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Forum: European Armoury
15th January 2023, 07:48 PM
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Schiavona notes, passim
Cathey,
This thread is such a great reference resource, and I wanted to add some of the notes I had in my files ( my apologies for the haphazard character ). While far from the standard of the...
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Forum: European Armoury
12th January 2023, 08:46 PM
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Victrix thank you for these insightful entries!...
Victrix thank you for these insightful entries! That is interesting about what Oakeshott said, do you recall which of his books this was in? He was always so informative in these kinds of minutiae...
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Forum: European Armoury
11th January 2023, 08:27 PM
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It seems most I have ever read regarding...
It seems most I have ever read regarding evolution of the distinctive schiavona hilt suggests they evolved primarily from Hungarian/Croatian swords with the familiar S-guards seen in the landsknecht...
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Forum: European Armoury
11th January 2023, 06:12 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
11th January 2023, 12:37 AM
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Thank you Keith and Cathey!
Actually the grip...
Thank you Keith and Cathey!
Actually the grip was professionally redone about 25 years ago, but the entire sword is together as original. It seems quite possible that a traditional hilt, likely...
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Forum: European Armoury
10th January 2023, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 72
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Schiavona cavalry backsword of Napoleonic period?
This is the only example I have of schiavona, which is interesting in reflecting the latter period of use of these distinctly hilted swords.
It is in the traditional lattice hilt with asymmetric...
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