My first sword

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Just a little fun. Perhaps a sub forum like "Banter"?

BTW it is highly unclear to me what was cut down. I had thought that it was originally perhaps a Horstmann US Staff Sword from the CW period. I'd be interested in any comments.

Another point is that I had heard/read that there were still stores of US Civil War material scattered about the country. This was some time ago ut it makes some sense. I might vote that this example has a blade that is earlier than the Patton sword.

And on the Patton Sword itself: it should certainly be part of the corpus of this forum. It is the final, ultimate manifestation of the European Sword. In fact it's development owes more to the European Court Sword tradition than anything else. I would argue that Patton, who was a romantic at heart, knew full well that he was paying homage to that tradition.

Rules are great but slavishly folling them is really dangerous for intellectual exploration.

my 2p