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An early Smallsword with an ornately chiseled hilt, attributed to Nicolas Hornuto de Aguirre,
OaL: 43.9 in/111.5 cm
Weight: 1.8 lbs/800 g
blade made in Toledo, Spain, dated 1637, hilt made in Nuremberg or Berlin, Germany, ca. 1650-1675, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Vienna.
Smallsword, European, 1655
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Smallsword with Scabbard, possibly German, c. 1750-60
Another one for the HEMA folks, or SCA or LARP or other collections of capital letters! It is available here if you are inclined to wear clothes or stick things on other things
If my clubmates would stop saying banger things like this I would be able to stop drawing piles of weapons and twisty banners. But for now it's a pretty fun challenge for my art so I'll allow it
starting our (very brief) romance unit for a class about genre fiction in comics. everyone say hello to my gay smallsword fencers in 1600s france
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Late 18th Century European smallsword with a chased and pierced steel hilt. The guard is a symmetrical in the 'Pas d'ane' style and decorated with military trophies indicating that this might have belonged to a military officer. The grip is square and bound with alternating copper ribbon and twisted wire. Originally this would most likely been silver plated.
The hollow ground trefoil blade is by Johann and Clemens Boegel of Solingen and maked with their I.C.B trademark and other motifs typical of the time.
The term 'Pas d'ane' comes from French and translates as 'donkey's foot' after the shape of the donkey sole. Commentators on smallswords often misidentify the small loops between the guard and the knucklebow and quillon as the 'pas d'ane' when the correct term for them is annulets.
On Western European smallswords the annulets are a decorative hang over from earlier fencing styles when they were larger to allow the fencers' finger over the crossguard.
Went to my first HEMA tournament this weekend.
I fenced smallsword, and rapier and dagger. Placed 10th and 8th respectively which feels great!
I'm planning on going to another tournament in May now too.
