My "new" cup hilt sword for your kind comments

Jim McDougall · 4th June 2020, 04:12 AM

Thank you Mark!
Actually we are not digressing from the outstanding cuphilt Fernando has posted in the OP, but discussing various avenues toward classification and identifying it. Often a great deal of related material and comparisons, regardless of even tenuous observations, clues can be found in most unusual places!

Interesting about the contrived examples I mentioned with the odd crossguard UNDER the cup being cataloged as 'pirate'

I have one of these which was found with this seemingly cliche' classification as well (need to find pics of it).

4th June 2020, 04:12 AM	#13
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,190	Thank you Mark! Actually we are not digressing from the outstanding cuphilt Fernando has posted in the OP, but discussing various avenues toward classification and identifying it. Often a great deal of related material and comparisons, regardless of even tenuous observations, clues can be found in most unusual places! Interesting about the contrived examples I mentioned with the odd crossguard UNDER the cup being cataloged as 'pirate' I have one of these which was found with this seemingly cliche' classification as well (need to find pics of it).