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Steven Barton
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Posted: Sat 10 Jul, 2010 11:31 am Post subject: Any ideas on this one? |
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HI there - long time occasional reader, first time poster and still a complete novice! Amazing the breadth of knowledge here, always a pleasure to read.
I was wondering...any ideas on this sword? Did a whole bunch of searching and couldn't find anything particularly similar overall and lacked the descriptive terms to really search properly. Blade is 37.5 inches, Total length is a hair under 48 inches.
Thanks!
Steven
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Lucas S
Location: poland Joined: 25 Dec 2007
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Posted: Sat 10 Jul, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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hi, this sword looks very nice. i haven't seen any similar pieces and i'm not specialist, but for me it's a XIX / XX century decorative sword. for me pictures don't give enough good view on this object to evaluate it properly.
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David Sutton
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Posted: Sat 10 Jul, 2010 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Possibly a masonic ceremonial sword?
EDIT Come to think of it though 37" blade does seem a touch on the long side for a masonic sword.
'Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all'
'To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing'
Hypatia of Alexandria, c400AD
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Sam Barris
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Posted: Sat 10 Jul, 2010 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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I vote XIXth Century decorative. It doesn't look like most ceremonial swords I've seen; Masonic, Knights of Columbus, etc. I'd guess more of something that once adorned a Victorian era wall somewhere. Nice looking, though! I wasn't attempting to denigrate it at all.
Pax,
Sam Barris
"Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." —Thucydides
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Hal Siegel
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Location: Austin, Texas Joined: 30 Aug 2003
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