The funny little poinard was the real treat though. Although just the butt end of what must had once been quite splendorous, was assembled with some odd parts at one point. While a little different, the stand of arms at the base of the blade is identical to Bashford Dean's example 66. Another difference in the art of it is that it was a truly folded/damscene blade. A little hard for me to photograph/capture that but I could see it in the dealer's pictures. What stories this one might tell is anyone's guess but it was once a part of some quite expensive sword in its day.
http://swordlinks.com/courtswords/p14.html#66
Cheers, just a couple of more aside from these two for the quest here. One la Anglais spadroon that has moved on to another home and another first empire (likely infantry dress) small sword. Ironically (or not) both were from Shiloh Relics and budget priced.. The cut down smallsword was from Chuck of the A2A site.
GC
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