Basket Hilt help?

[M ELEY]

Thank you for that information! I was unaware and will do a little research on it. Not to derail this thread in any way, but I always wondered if the same was true in the other regard- Scots carrying French weapons during the Rebellion. I'd always imagined some of the renegade Highlanders from the outlands of the New Hebrides armed with such. I have an active imagination, I guess!