Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Brothers from a different bladesmith

werecow · 30th October 2024, 10:06 PM

I also have only very limited knowledge of these but let me add my guesswork. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

The relatively wide globular pommel style and wide pas d'ânes on both of these look to me like a 17th century style, and that matches the blade cross section and relatively long blade length, and while I'm not sure, most of the smallswords I've seen without a knuckle guard are also 17th c... But the disk guard looks more like 18th century (specifically it reminds me of some cut steel ones, see attached: not mine, ca 1780 - though that may just be a superficial resemblance), and of course clearly the wire has been replaced and the pas d'âne rings don't quite reach the guard. Could that disc be an old replacement?

30th October 2024, 10:06 PM	#4
werecow Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Leiden, NL Posts: 534	I also have only very limited knowledge of these but let me add my guesswork. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. The relatively wide globular pommel style and wide pas d'ânes on both of these look to me like a 17th century style, and that matches the blade cross section and relatively long blade length, and while I'm not sure, most of the smallswords I've seen without a knuckle guard are also 17th c... But the disk guard looks more like 18th century (specifically it reminds me of some cut steel ones, see attached: not mine, ca 1780 - though that may just be a superficial resemblance), and of course clearly the wire has been replaced and the pas d'âne rings don't quite reach the guard. Could that disc be an old replacement? Attached Images Last edited by werecow; 30th October 2024 at 10:43 PM.