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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Route 66
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Exactly!!! You can see how the blade makes a difference. A pallasche is yet another European term for a full length heavy straight blade sword. In Europe however, while the pallasche was a heavy, straight hacking and chopping sword, often a rider wore a saber at his side, and had a straight thrusting sword termed 'tuck' (estoc) under his leg saddle mounted. In the Rembrandt painting it is hard to determine if this sword under the right leg is a tuck or pallasche, but the intent is to show the manner these were carried. |
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: New Zealand
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playing the devils advocate here, but that blade looks very similar to the Sudanese kaskara. I’m also iffy on the lovely pommel and quillons decorations but the guard is a thin plain sheet. To my eye this combination doesn’t fit together.
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Location: Leiden, NL
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Also still on sale.
![]() Radboud's kaskara suggestion is certainly feasible though. Maybe a picture of the peen could tell us something more about whether the blade is likely to have been rehilted? EDIT: Adding a random kaskara from the intertubes for reference. The central fuller does sometimes run longer up to the full length of the blade. Last edited by fernando; 4th November 2023 at 08:39 AM. |
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