Hadn't that area of France been more or less under English control for around 300 years, starting from Henry II's marriage to Eleanor of Aquitane?

Not really offtopic.

I imagine that Gascony and Brittany felt the same way towards the King in Paris as Wales and Scotland did about the one in London.

Here's my version of the Arma bohemia EP50. It's 5 cm shorter than the normal model, being 141 cm. The grip is longer than on the original and the standard EP50. The pommel is more nicely shaped, more like the original. The blade also has an ever so slightly less linear taper compared to the standard version I handled. Sorry for not having better pictures.

btw, how do I make the attachments instantly visible? Moderators can feel free to fix this, please

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In their upcoming auction, Galerie Fischer will be offering for sale three swords which "according to the consignor" are from the Castillon find. As noted in their descriptions, two of these are completely dissimilar to the other published specimens, with none of the distinctive features of either group A or B...

Has anyone seen or heard anything about these particular swords before?

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http://www.fischerauktionen.ch/auktion/objekt...oid=158381
http://www.fischerauktionen.ch/auktion/objekt...oid=158382


Also for auction is a well known sword from Castillon, XV.5 from "Records".
http://www.fischerauktionen.ch/auktion/objekt...oid=158573

Hi chaps,

A lot of great stuff here. I am Doing a bit of a deep dive atm and looking for more info and images of these types of blades.

Its looking like I'll have to cough up for those catalogues...

Does anyone recognise this sword (attached), maybe know where it might be located etc ?

Can someone clarify if its a trick of the light or not, but there appears to be a suggestion of hollow grind perhaps ?

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I agree it's most likely hollow ground, and it looks like a modern reproduction to me. The hilt furniture looks like someone blued it. Yet, from its appearance, I also have the impression that someone might want to be passing it off as an antique.

The image appears to come from the ARMA website:

http://www.thearma.org/spotlight/UKtripreport.htm

The background is the same as the Moonbrand image just above it, so it was probably in the Oakeshott collection as of the article's date (1999). The Oakeshott Institute might be worth a try to see if they know of its whereabouts.

Hi chaps, thanks for the input. I think you might be onto something, I had a suspicion thay saw that sword when visiting Oakeshott and you have more or less confirmed it.

I have 'tried' to message Clive Thomas. Ill try the institute too.

I'm resurrecting this old post because I recently acquired a reproduction of a Castillon sword made by Valiant Armoury. It is a fine, accurate version of the light falchion from the "C" group. Sonny Suttles worked from the specs published by Clive Thomas, and the result is a wonderful,fast cut and thrust sword.

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Thanks for sharing Roger. What a beauty! I'm a huge fan of this group of weapons, and it's always nice to see such a faithful reproduction.

Nice Roger, Sonny and Zach are doing good work these days. I also have an ongoing order with them.

This is past my normal era of interest, but I've always been drawn to those short wide ones. Here is mine from Mateusz Sulowski, with review and more pictures here: https://myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=38404

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