| Jonathan Hopkins wrote: | ||
Yes, the blade on the DG 1796 Officer's Sword looks like it was borrowed from a British 1854 Pattern Infantry Officer's Sword. The fullers on my 1796 run the length of the blade, as do the fullers on your spadroon, Glen. I also agree that unless I decide to pursue learning the use of the spadroon, I will spend my money on originals instead of replicas. Jonathan |
The Macdonald Armouries blades look to be inspired by the French style of spadroon Jonathan, you do get these tall blocks on british ones but not often, and they usually date from the late 1770s - so a little early for the English "Adam" style pommel (but not impossible).
The DG blades are quite dreadful, and as you say are simply 1845 "Latham" blades straigtened. Whilst there is an NCO plain spadroon (i.e. no acanthus molding on the hilt, copper wire etc.) There is no official drummers spadroon, thats a DG marketing thing it seems. The only pattern that has this shortened variant for musicians is the 1798 Highland Inf.
There are a few weights and measurements of originals here if anyone is interested.
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tx1192000/al.../my_photos