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broadaxe · 20th June 2012, 02:11 PM

Lat one isn't a messer, it's a hand-and-a-half saber in the swiss tradition. Hilt construction is of the sword type. Very famous, but not in Cluny, in Musee de l'armee.

20th June 2012, 02:11 PM	#15
broadaxe Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 334	Lat one isn't a messer, it's a hand-and-a-half saber in the swiss tradition. Hilt construction is of the sword type. Very famous, but not in Cluny, in Musee de l'armee.