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Old 24th November 2017, 07:30 PM   #1
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Thank you Ibrahiim, here are some more hilt designs.
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Old 24th November 2017, 11:17 PM   #2
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Excellent, excellent, excellent! Great pics of the multiple pierced French hilt types!
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Old 25th November 2017, 12:40 PM   #3
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Nasturally the FDL has a permanent home with British Royalty since it appears on the Royal Cypher. In the Crown.
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Old 25th November 2017, 08:27 PM   #4
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Another group of hilts.
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Old 26th November 2017, 07:48 AM   #5
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the royal french infantry/dragoon hangers were imported into the USA as aid for the continentals during the revolution, and modified by removing the outer part of the guard where your fleur is, like mine below. they also came without the fleur (napoleonic imperial period?), example from google also below. british dragoon swords of the period had round grips with an urn-like pommel, like the pooley swords made for the loyalists & crown forces in NY. the brits later used a hilt style more like these.
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Old 26th November 2017, 12:27 PM   #6
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...a-Reynolds.jpg

The Tarleton portrait seems to show one. ^^^^

The Potter swords of NYC targeted for British and loyalist use. The archived ASOAC article.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110609...ein_potter.pdf

Then there are the pie crusted slotted hilt French swords we see with the bi-fold knuckle guards.

I have always adored this British dragoons sword.

Sorry, no fdl but I like slotted hilts.

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Old 26th November 2017, 01:38 PM   #7
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If I can adjust aim here and focus upon Fleur de Lis ~ On Basket Hilt, Small Sword, Wilkinsons Sword and Belgian Tapestry.
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