[Sean Flynt]

I've seen this form in wood (or is it blunt steel that's depicted in J. Meyer?) but never as a (very fine) steel weapon. I know there's some debate about whether this form was used for weapons or was used only in messer training. This pretty much settles the question for me. This is a small detail from The Fall of Rebel Angels (Frans Floris, 1554). Enjoy!

[Bill Grandy]

Nice find, Sean. This debate recently came up on SFI... I think I'll pass on a link to this thread.

[Wolfgang Armbruster]

That's interesting! Thx for posting it.
This one one even features a pommel. So far I've only seen steel-dussacks that looked more like sinclair-sabers rather than those depicted in the fencing manuals. Maybe we don't know any surviving examples because people tended to recycle this simple design instead of storing it in an armoury. The wooden ones wouldn't have lasted very long anyway and would have ended up as fodder for the next best fire.