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Old 16th October 2025, 04:16 AM   #5
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Unfortunately this link is now defunct. Does anyone still have a working link or a copy that they would be willing to share?

Also, will leave a link Gabri's latest video on these here for those interested in the type.
I enjoyed Gabri's video, unfortunatly much the same theories about the origin of this type. I think we can all agree that the too many examples survive for it to have been a militia's sword. However that doesn't exclude them from having been for a state armory. We see plenty of examples from other European armories that housed masses of equipment.

The issue that I have with the other theory, the tripple X mark belonging to Dutch merchants or guild who onsold the swords, is that we only see this mark on this specific pattern of sword. If it was a merchants' mark we would see it on other types of swords.

Below are screen shots I took of the article. To be honest, from what I read through Google Translate, it doesn't add much to the discussion either. Looking at their example, it also has a number of variations to the typical examples you see in the digital catalogue of the Dutch Army Museum (search for "Waalse degen").
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