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11th February 2020, 05:44 PM
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11th February 2020, 06:21 PM
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So ... you have not noticed that before, Calien ...
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11th February 2020, 08:20 PM
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No, it always comes up as Joseph Bonaparte in English and I never made the connection. Its the same with Murat I just noticed his first name in Italian is Gioacchino Murat...so it could also be him. I need to do more research thats for sure.
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11th February 2020, 08:30 PM
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Its also possible that it could be from Murat as his name translates into "Gioacchino Napoleone Murat". Im hoping I can find a similar sample with the same monogram.
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10th April 2020, 11:48 PM
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Notched drag?
Something that caught my eye was the notched drag of the chape, something I would have thought no more of, except that I had just finished reading a thread on here, about notched points, of this same configuration.
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22nd April 2020, 10:05 AM
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22nd April 2020, 08:09 PM
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Near the end of this thread... http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?p=214570
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22nd April 2020, 11:09 PM
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It would be a particularly vicious practice to gut enemies using a blunt scabbard! Perhaps the story about using the notches to pick up horse reins is true after all? Or maybe French soldiers used notches on scabbards to recognize their swords amongst others? I have a French Napoleonic sabre cavalerie legere modele AN XI which has a notched M or W on the scabbard drag.
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