early 1700s English swords
Perhaps someone can help me with this issue:
I've previously published a list of blade types Shotley bridge workers were contracted to produce in 1703 (I've attached it again below) but I am at a loss to know exactly what styles of swords would have been in use at that time.
I am aware of the various smallswords (civilian and battlefield) and the brass hilted (Walloon?) horseman's swords (see below) but these were not munitions grade.
Shotley Bridge were turning out thousands of blades for the Tower armoury's general issue, right through the first half of the 1700s and a bit beyond, but it is the early ones that escape me: what was the common British cavalry/soldier/seaman carrying in 1703?
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