Boar sword cross bar

[fernando]

Is this an old blade, Foxbat ?

[Foxbat]

Yes.

[fernando]

Would you know how old ?

[Foxbat]

16th century.

[kronckew]

see this for some info: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ossbar&f=false

[Foxbat]

The link, unfortunately, is not working for me.

[M ELEY]

Did you mean to say 'boar spear'? I have never heard of a boar sword (not being sarcastic here!). I'll have to look it up-

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by Foxbat

The link, unfortunately, is not working for me.

I've seen a modern recreation of the boar sword sketched above by an experimental historian. Apparently the cross piece was made to be removable, possibly screwing together, rectangular on the main piece to fit the slot and prevent rotation, but drilled & tapped for a mating screw on the opposing arm. Each had a shoulder behind the bit that went through the slot to hold it from both sides. Unfortunately there was no pic of it unattached to the blade.

Screen dump: for those of us without the whole book and a picture of the crossbar on the original museum piece at
https://guywindsor.net/blog/2016/10/...swords-me-too/

[Foxbat]

Originally Posted by kronckew

see this for some info: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ossbar&f=false

Came home and found that book on my shelf... but it doesn't show much, unfortunately. A couple of pictures of cross bard, not clear how exactly made.