![]() |
|
![]() |
#1 |
Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 1,255
|
![]()
pictures
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 | |
Member
Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: Leiden, NL
Posts: 553
|
![]()
Here is a similar hilt with the following description:
Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#3 |
Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 1,255
|
![]()
WOW,THANKS,BULLSEYE!!!
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 263
|
![]()
Your blade seems to be from an early 1728 model Spanish cavalry sword, a Solingen export. Similar ones usually under the name Enrique Coel, circa 1750. Hilt 1860-1890, some of these likely commissioned by Mexican revolutionary officers at the Spanish city of Eibar because of damascening (Zuloaga).
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5 |
Member
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 1,255
|
![]()
Thank you for the information! Can I call this an Espada Ancha?
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#6 |
Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 263
|
![]()
The proper name is "Espada de Chinaco", being the chinacos the Mexican revolutionary commanders against Maximiliano, and also later.
There was a thread discussing them (in Spanish) here: https://www.mexicoarmado.com/cuchill...la-hoja-2.html But it seems gone. Chinacos are also considered predecessor of charros so you can find them as charro sword as well (espada charra or espada de charros). https://www.flickr.com/photos/nohuanda/16669456566 https://www.shutterstock.com/es/edit...ddle-7647211uz Espadas anchas belong to a diiferent geographical space and period, but certainly your old military blade could have been in one. These blades can be found in Moroccan nimchas too, but your sword is not a nimcha. Outside Mexico it will be rare anybody knows what are you talking about with chinaco or charro sword. In USA they will with espada ancha. Last picture from a book titled Charreria. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=...50684475946264 You can give a look to this thread. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=24378 Last edited by midelburgo; 27th September 2024 at 03:40 AM. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#7 |
Arms Historian
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Route 66
Posts: 10,189
|
![]()
The term espada ancha as I have understood was applied to the 'bilbo' style regulation sword of c. 1728, the term meaning loosely 'large sword' but was mistakenly transposed to the short swords (machete/cutlass/hanger) used in the northern colonial regions of New Spain.
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#8 | |||
Member
Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: Leiden, NL
Posts: 553
|
![]() Quote:
EDIT: Just in case that one also goes dead, the post says: Quote:
And the response: Quote:
Last edited by werecow; 28th September 2024 at 03:01 PM. |
|||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
|
|