21st November 2008, 12:45 PM | #25 | |
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Yep, it's the rifling that makes this an interesting beastie...
Remember in WWII, the allies found a few MP-40s and STMG-44s wit their barrels bent? They thought it was queer how the explosions that caused their barrels to be bent left them so precisely curved... Then they discovered they were used to fire around corners. Or the obsolete vacuum tubes on the computer boards of the russian Mig-23s, or the Horton flying wing. Or the baby Luger... I don't know, but the fact is that we have an old hilt, coupled to a new bizarrely shaped blade. This happens in 1845. Seems there was a hurry to supply someone with this type of blade, thus the old hilt. The blade seems either turkish or russian, and no one has seen similar in Europe. Could this be a limited order to supply in a hurry some Force outside the bounds of traditional Europe? Perhaps South-America, or the mis-Orient? Jean, you're the expert on both French blades and History. Who might France be willing to equip in a hurry, back in 1844-1845? I know, I know, all conjectures. Per'aps we'll never know, me' mateys. Best regards to y'all : ) Manuel Quote:
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