MEXICO, ESPADA CORTA

[machinist]

Yours is remarkable for its preservation and having the sheath as well. swords like this seem to have done much work in peacetime as machetes and I believe butchering deer and cattle. I have one with an edge worn to maximum dullness and the back of the blade has the mark of many hammer blows as if someone wanted to quarter a large animal. On mine the branch of the handquard is missing, just two bumps remain with a bit of brass solder marking a failed repair