new blade I picked up

Hotspur · 20th October 2012, 06:21 PM

Looking through Bashford Dean's book of swords, there is quite a bit of oriental flavor to some of the sword ornament. A more stylized example of this hilt is shown on a couple of examples from the latter quarter of the 18th century.

http://swordlinks.com/courtswords/intro.html

There is probably an online dictionary for the alchemic figures and symbols but I have never found an all encompassing page that might dechiper a lot of it.

Neat sword.

Cheers

GC

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20th October 2012, 06:21 PM	#5
Hotspur Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Nipmuc USA Posts: 514	Looking through Bashford Dean's book of swords, there is quite a bit of oriental flavor to some of the sword ornament. A more stylized example of this hilt is shown on a couple of examples from the latter quarter of the 18th century. http://swordlinks.com/courtswords/intro.html There is probably an online dictionary for the alchemic figures and symbols but I have never found an all encompassing page that might dechiper a lot of it. Neat sword. Cheers GC