An Old Warhorse

[horseclover]

I spoke to soon after closing that auction. The seller had sold it while leaving the listing up. It did land with someone in the extended communities though. I should have just grabbed it a year ago.

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[SonX51]

You led me to look up thumb rings on swords, and, amusingly, you were having a similar discussion 10 years ago lol

http://www.swordforum.com/vb4/showthread.php?98252-Swords-with-thumb-rings

 

[horseclover]

Yes, I added page shots of Neuman's book and had originally posted them to a myArmoury thread April 25th, 2008. I had moved to mostly an interest in 18th and 19th century swords by 2004, with little looking back. I recently added another 17th century piece shortly after the reproduction walloon auction turned out to be sold some months ago (to surface in the extended family). This new/old to me piece is a cut down blade with an early smallsword hilt, the blade possibly a century earlier (16th century).


Soon after again filling the bucket list with an Argentine 1909 artillery bolo.

 

[althesmith]

I fell off the wagon again and adopted an early Christmas present. An Armart hilt and Darwood Armoury blade with a Vladmir Cervenka gold and silver wire grip.

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An irony in that I had just acquired the old sword watching this appear almost exactly a year ago, weeks after getting the period piece.

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Nice!
Blued or Japanned hilt?

 

[horseclover]

I'm not sure what the finish is. I wish the sale had happened. It may surface again with more description.

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