Montmorency blade in late 18th c. British military swords

[Triarii]

Here's one on what I called a 1788 - 96 type sword. I think the grip was ebony.

[Radboud]

Nice sword, and interesting to see the Solingen mark get overstamped like that. I had heard of Egg doing this to Runkel imported 1788s. Have you looked into the I.B.B mark?

[Triarii]

I haven't Radboud. I wonderted if it was the initials of the owner, for some reason.

[midelburgo]

I reference to the previous "NO ME ENFADES" blade now I know of another two similar ones, also dated 1700 and 1702, with Spanish texts.

So, these seem to have been used by Spanish Dragons before an Ordenanza in 1704 ordered straight blades.

The 18833 is obviously a Weyersberg inpersonation of Toledo, just as nowadays Chinese fakers make spelling mistakes.

[Hotspur]

In my opinion, the fullers at the spine are to add stiffness, even though the Bancal was known to fold.

Not limited to sabres, here is a German backsword blades about 1800 and a 1750ish Germanic hussar hiltsabre with a wider spine fuller, as we see on British stuff after 1780.

Cheers
GC

[Hotspur]

An earlier backsword blade.