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Forum: European Armoury 21st December 2025, 02:28 PM
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Posted By midelburgo
I think that grip is not thought to be wielded....

I think that grip is not thought to be wielded. It could be a funeral item to be displayed in a church, a tomb. The (Solingen) blade could come from a walloon sword, at the end of XVIIth century.
Forum: European Armoury 20th December 2025, 02:29 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,604
Posted By midelburgo
Until this year I thought mottoes were a thing...

Until this year I thought mottoes were a thing from Solingen all the way. I am still trying to understand the order of appearition in straight blades, but for sabers, Barcelona started and Solingen...
Forum: European Armoury 19th December 2025, 10:12 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,604
Posted By midelburgo
At this moment there is a complete separation...

At this moment there is a complete separation between the current archives research and the artifacts themselves. Spain has probably the best records of the crown workshops, but their products are...
Forum: European Armoury 19th December 2025, 10:06 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,604
Posted By midelburgo
Rapier (ropera) was used in a couple of...

Rapier (ropera) was used in a couple of inventories in the 1480s and then dissapeared of Spanish language until XXth century.

In the Album of the Marques de la Victoria (1720s-1740s) there is a...
Forum: European Armoury 19th December 2025, 09:59 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,604
Posted By midelburgo
9pm I am currently discovering many a...

9pm

I am currently discovering many a publication that has taken place from the academic side in recent years. All the burocratic account are there, but very few used them until now. This is...
Forum: European Armoury 15th December 2025, 10:21 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,604
Posted By midelburgo
It is important to note that brass foundry was...

It is important to note that brass foundry was uncommon in Spain. In XVIth century most brass domestic items were brought from Germany. Bronze was often used instead.

So the weapons given by the...
Forum: European Armoury 15th December 2025, 09:52 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,604
Posted By midelburgo
The pictures of the relic hilts from the 1724...

The pictures of the relic hilts from the 1724 galleon came from this Spanish 2019 pH D thesis (UNA INVESTIGACIÓN HISTÓRICO-ARQUEOLÓGICA. EL NAUFRAGIO DEL NAVÍO NUESTRA SEÑORA DE GUADALUPE Y SAN...
Forum: European Armoury 14th December 2025, 10:05 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 5,604
Posted By midelburgo
Naval Caribbean rapier

I have always suspected the so called Caribbean Rapiers were actually not caribbean made swords but Spanish navy trooper swords.

Some underwater footage from the wreck of the galleon San Jose,...
Forum: European Armoury 5th December 2025, 09:54 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 6,671
Posted By midelburgo
Did you tried the Stibbert museum? They seem to...

Did you tried the Stibbert museum? They seem to be fond of weird things and theit collection has a number of blades from the Italian Unification wars, as Stibbert himself took part.
Forum: European Armoury 17th November 2025, 09:03 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 12,274
Posted By midelburgo
There was somebody in swordforum who used to...

There was somebody in swordforum who used to write quite many posts on these captured swords, no idea of the nick anymore, but he mentioned often that his main source was a German language forum on...
Forum: European Armoury 6th November 2025, 11:49 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 6,296
Posted By midelburgo
Weird personalized Spanish 1728 cavalry sword

I just got it today. Plenty of work ahead, but I think most of the rust will go away.

This is a post 1760 hilt with a probably older remounted GIO KNEGT from Solingen blade. EN ALEMANIA on the...
Forum: European Armoury 6th November 2025, 11:34 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 8,319
Posted By midelburgo
Piquet weight swords were not used in the Spanish...

Piquet weight swords were not used in the Spanish army. They had a sort of smallswords just for gala dressing (one below for cavalry 1887). There existed a large variety in the same blade model, in...
Forum: European Armoury 4th November 2025, 01:36 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 8,319
Posted By midelburgo
The reason a Spanish officer could want to have a...

The reason a Spanish officer could want to have a British Engineers hilt, is that in 1860 cavalry troopers got the so-called Prussian basket model, with a steel hilt.

There was not to be an...
Forum: European Armoury 4th November 2025, 01:08 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 8,319
Posted By midelburgo
I do not know much from the 1857 Engineers...

I do not know much from the 1857 Engineers pattern (just what comes in Brian Robson book, page 235) but I am developing some theories on the Spanish Cavalry Officers swords in XIXth century. And the...
Forum: European Armoury 4th November 2025, 12:47 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 8,319
Posted By midelburgo
Spanish Cavalry or British Engineer?

Taking advantage of the attention given to the thread on the British Infantry Battle Swords, I would like to ask the forum opinion on this sword:

It is a British Engineer Officer hilt devoid of...
Forum: European Armoury 30th October 2025, 05:50 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 25,967
Posted By midelburgo
Juan José Pérez intended to research the...

Juan José Pérez intended to research the Ballesteros enterprise more than 10 years ago. He said so in the esgrima Antigua forum. That forum has had no traffic for five years now. And I did not hear...
Forum: European Armoury 28th October 2025, 10:59 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 25,967
Posted By midelburgo
Since 1820 it was allowed that other cutlers...

Since 1820 it was allowed that other cutlers could make and comercialize swords outside of the oficial centers.

For example, Ibarzabal could sell complete swords from that year, made in Eibar....
Forum: European Armoury 28th October 2025, 02:00 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 25,967
Posted By midelburgo
Ballesteros was a private enterprise and had...

Ballesteros was a private enterprise and had nothing to do with the Fabrica de Toledo, only the same location.

They made a couple of models for Portuguese army and for some Spanish local police.
Forum: European Armoury 12th October 2025, 02:21 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 39,442
Posted By midelburgo
A blade with SOLIGE written on the channel, and...

A blade with SOLIGE written on the channel, and the (fake) Toledo mark on the ricasso.

Check post#8 in this thread:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=29803&highlight=Toledo+Solingen
Forum: European Armoury 2nd October 2025, 08:49 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 39,442
Posted By midelburgo
I believe it is the same sword, but they say the...

I believe it is the same sword, but they say the motto is different, a more catchy one. Artistic license or whatever.
Forum: European Armoury 25th September 2025, 11:47 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 39,442
Posted By midelburgo
It could be this sort of XVIIIth century blade...

It could be this sort of XVIIIth century blade just grinded all around, becoming smaller.
Waiting for the pictures. I do not remember to have ever seen a Spanish Colonial thing with a threaded...
Forum: European Armoury 22nd September 2025, 10:06 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 16,862
Posted By midelburgo
That was my 2018 hypothesis. Later I had...

That was my 2018 hypothesis.
Later I had another hypothesis trying to bind a movement of Eibar armourers to Trubia (starting with T) when Basque Country weapon factories were destroyed by the...
Forum: European Armoury 21st September 2025, 10:34 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 16,862
Posted By midelburgo
The Ayzavilla or Crowned T Bilbos mistery solved

This is about a group of Spanish cavalry 1728 pattern swords that were not made in Toledo.

I will cite myself from this 2018 thread:
...
Forum: European Armoury 21st September 2025, 09:51 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 39,442
Posted By midelburgo
The grenade is a simbol for the French...

The grenade is a simbol for the French Gendarmerie too.

After making some searches I am unable to find the CAVISCO DEL VOI=CABEZO DEL REI discussion. Maybe it took place in swordforum and not in...
Forum: European Armoury 19th September 2025, 04:27 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 39,442
Posted By midelburgo
Hi. We have found that cavisco before. It is...

Hi.
We have found that cavisco before.
It is actually to mean,
MI SEÑAL ES EL CABEZO DE REY, my mark is a kings head. Of course a typical Solingen mark for centuries.
I am watching the pictures...
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