Hungarian Sword Identification -- myArmoury.com

Shahril Dzulkifli · Posted: Thu 13 Dec, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject: Hungarian Sword Identification

As a newbie here I also have a sword to identify. I have never seen it before.

M. Eversberg II

Shahril Dzulkifli · Posted: Fri 14 Dec, 2007 1:03 am Post subject: Hungarian Sword Identification

This sword is no Mameluke. Mameluke swords do not have thick blades. They have curved blades.

Lafayette C Curtis · Posted: Fri 14 Dec, 2007 2:52 am Post subject:

Hmm...looks like a Polish or Hungarian sword to me, but I don't know enough to say anything more than that. Seeing the breadth, it might also be an infantry hanger, although it might be a bit too long for that classification.

Anyone?

(Oh, BTW, wouldn't it be more appropriate to post a request for the identification of a different sword in a different topic? That way it may be able to gather more attention than when it's placed near the bottom of an old thread's page like this.)

Chad Arnow · myArmoury Team

Glen A Cleeton · Posted: Fri 14 Dec, 2007 6:42 am Post subject:

Hello Shahril,

It reminds me very much of a sword I posted to another thread here somewhere. I'm afraid I don't recall the exact context or title, or I would point the way to it. This sword is listed as a Hungarian headsman's sword.

http://h1.ripway.com/Bombadil/mA/hhss.jpg

Does your example show engravings at all on the blade? I am not certain of the exact period of either, nor certain if other areas of Europe would have similar examples but seeing your example posted reminded me of this one. I would place both to the second half of the 18th century but that is as good as my information on them is. I believe the other thread was about executioner's swords, or executions in general.

Cheers

GC(I'm lazy, or I would shrink that a bit)

Shahril Dzulkifli · Posted: Fri 14 Dec, 2007 8:01 am Post subject: Hungarian Sword Identification

Here are the engravings on that sword's blade (faintly visible).

Romulus Stoica · Posted: Sat 15 Dec, 2007 1:30 am Post subject:

Looks like a Hungarian infantry sword around late 1700 - early 1800.
Here is a hungarian sword from that period, has the same blade but different guard:
http://www.nagyhazi.hu/tetelek_tobb.php?id=65...mp;page=17

Shahril Dzulkifli · Posted: Fri 28 Dec, 2007 9:34 am Post subject: Hungarian Sword Identification

Here is a Grenadiers' sword dating from 1765 whose blade is similar to the one shown above:

Any opinions, everybody?

Henrik Zoltan Toth · Posted: Sat 29 Dec, 2007 5:03 am Post subject:

Do you have a larger photo from the hilt?

Shahril Dzulkifli · Posted: Sat 29 Dec, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Hungarian Sword Identification

Henrik, here's a photo of the hilt.

Henrik Zoltan Toth · Posted: Sat 29 Dec, 2007 10:16 am Post subject:

It could be realy a hungarian sabre from the late 1700's. I got a picture of an almost identical sabre (hilt) in my books.

Hal Siegel · Industry Professional

Howdy, Shahril.

Your sword is a Hungarian infantry officer's sabre, M1811, type II.

Nice find!

Shahril Dzulkifli

Hal, thanks for informing me about that sword.
Good work!