What Is It?

TVV · 17th March 2009, 11:21 PM

Ended yesterday on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=220375220479

The blade seems to be European, possibly French. The hilt with those brass tacks has an African feel to me. But what is it really?

broadaxe · 17th March 2009, 11:56 PM

I think it is an altered sword-cane. Well, just the sword minus the cane. In my part of the world (the Middle East) it was quite popular to make sword-canes out of surplus French Epees, after WWI to WWII.

17th March 2009, 11:21 PM	#1
TVV Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bay Area Posts: 1,721	What Is It? Ended yesterday on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=220375220479 The blade seems to be European, possibly French. The hilt with those brass tacks has an African feel to me. But what is it really?

17th March 2009, 11:56 PM	#2
broadaxe Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 334	I think it is an altered sword-cane. Well, just the sword minus the cane. In my part of the world (the Middle East) it was quite popular to make sword-canes out of surplus French Epees, after WWI to WWII.