This Dirk A Sum Of Its Parts?
Jun 2, 2009 0:43:17 GMT
Post by hotspur on Jun 2, 2009 0:43:17 GMT
One thing that pops up fairly frequently is composite remakes of various parts. I had watched this piece at a dealer for several months and when the price came down, I went ahead and adopted it. I was mostly interested in the blade and grabbed it on that principle on its own but the other pieces have some interest in my exploration as well.
I had put up some more pictures and thoughts here.
h1.ripway.com/Bombadil/SBG/Poinard1.jpg
forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=95932
I still haven't gotten around to better pictures of the fittings themselves. Nothing quite fits together in time and space but the guard is interesting to me, as it shows work of being forged out. The pommel is hollow and looks quite modern, as the facing on the grip side looks machined to me. Cast but faced off cleanly. The grip itself is entirely cast and I should have believed the seller. That is one I can't place at all as a military piece and must have come from one decorator sword or another.
I will put up more pictures of the fittings and tang. The tang had a brazed joint for the threads and the original forge welded tang extension.
The blade itself was the beauty. Although shortened, the blade decoration comes up in a book linked online in that thread. I have no idea what the repeated four depressions in the blade represent.
The book plate here is the example #66. I am scouting around for a suitable parts hilt. Original or modern, there are a few that would do nice with the remains of that blade.
swordlinks.com/courtswords/intro.html
66. DRESS SWORD Strasbourg, 1750-1770
Hilt of silver chased en torsade. Guard chased with fine (many) lines radiating from center toward edges, bulging anteriorly and posteriorly; borders partly plain, partly chiseled en torsade. Flattened grip of metal en suite. Pommel slightly globose, flattened. On right anterior pas d'âne undetermined hail mark, IFS or IES in rectangle between two fleurs-de-lis (?) (cf. No. 50).
Blade double-edged with median flattening; ovoid at base, and here, etched and gilded in cartouche, trophy, scrolls, and strapwork against hatched background; above this etched arabesques, strapwork, amorino with heart suspended as plummet - gilt in the lines; inscription: PEINE INNUTILE; also on each side two short wavy lines gilded over etching.
26.145.351 L. 94.5 (78.5) Wt. 424
[yes, a sword near a meter long overall (yardstick long) and weighs well less than a pound]
Plate LI Reubell Benefaction
So, French. About the middle of the 18th century or later. The blade is forge folded/damascus.
Cheers
Hotspur; it had been filled with wood splinters to fill the voids and looked pretty fresh in its assembly (no oxidation of the wood)
I had put up some more pictures and thoughts here.
h1.ripway.com/Bombadil/SBG/Poinard1.jpg
forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=95932
I still haven't gotten around to better pictures of the fittings themselves. Nothing quite fits together in time and space but the guard is interesting to me, as it shows work of being forged out. The pommel is hollow and looks quite modern, as the facing on the grip side looks machined to me. Cast but faced off cleanly. The grip itself is entirely cast and I should have believed the seller. That is one I can't place at all as a military piece and must have come from one decorator sword or another.
I will put up more pictures of the fittings and tang. The tang had a brazed joint for the threads and the original forge welded tang extension.
The blade itself was the beauty. Although shortened, the blade decoration comes up in a book linked online in that thread. I have no idea what the repeated four depressions in the blade represent.
The book plate here is the example #66. I am scouting around for a suitable parts hilt. Original or modern, there are a few that would do nice with the remains of that blade.
swordlinks.com/courtswords/intro.html
66. DRESS SWORD Strasbourg, 1750-1770
Hilt of silver chased en torsade. Guard chased with fine (many) lines radiating from center toward edges, bulging anteriorly and posteriorly; borders partly plain, partly chiseled en torsade. Flattened grip of metal en suite. Pommel slightly globose, flattened. On right anterior pas d'âne undetermined hail mark, IFS or IES in rectangle between two fleurs-de-lis (?) (cf. No. 50).
Blade double-edged with median flattening; ovoid at base, and here, etched and gilded in cartouche, trophy, scrolls, and strapwork against hatched background; above this etched arabesques, strapwork, amorino with heart suspended as plummet - gilt in the lines; inscription: PEINE INNUTILE; also on each side two short wavy lines gilded over etching.
26.145.351 L. 94.5 (78.5) Wt. 424
[yes, a sword near a meter long overall (yardstick long) and weighs well less than a pound]
Plate LI Reubell Benefaction
So, French. About the middle of the 18th century or later. The blade is forge folded/damascus.
Cheers
Hotspur; it had been filled with wood splinters to fill the voids and looked pretty fresh in its assembly (no oxidation of the wood)
