Walloon-Haudegen German Horsemans Pallasch 1640-1700
Feb 15, 2015 3:28:52 GMT
Post by Dave Kelly on Feb 15, 2015 3:28:52 GMT
I'd posted a note in the Acquisitions Thread when I received this one back in June 2014. Kind of got lost in the shuffle as I binged out the year.
At Roger Hooper's prompting here is some more detail. Roger has already been the guidon carrier for the Walloon style in his MyArmory expositions. He also commissioned A&A for the French Walloon they show in their custom catalog. I was intrigued with the weapon, but my resources were tied up elsewhere and the 2.4K buy-in was too much at the time. May of last year one of the Haudegens I was watching with an online antiques dealer went up for a very dramatic closeout price. I grabbed it. Online purchases are always scary. Until you receive you can't be sure it's as good as the pics and narrative say it is. This one turned out to be a VG buy.
The sword is 42 inches long with a 36x1.5 inch blade. The elliptical, double sided blade has impressive dynamics: 9mm thick at the guard and 6.5mm thru the forte. Midshaft is 4.6mm and the foible finishes 2mm. Sword weighs 2.5 lbs (with a .1lb sword knot attached ). The pob is out at 8 inches; but this is because the hilt is so Spartan in composition. The sword is quick and very agile. No wonder it was immediately popular thruout Western Europe. A few pics here to get you started. The rest are at photobucket:
s747.photobucket.com/user/kelly1863/library/Walloon%20Pallasch?sort=2&page=1
At Roger Hooper's prompting here is some more detail. Roger has already been the guidon carrier for the Walloon style in his MyArmory expositions. He also commissioned A&A for the French Walloon they show in their custom catalog. I was intrigued with the weapon, but my resources were tied up elsewhere and the 2.4K buy-in was too much at the time. May of last year one of the Haudegens I was watching with an online antiques dealer went up for a very dramatic closeout price. I grabbed it. Online purchases are always scary. Until you receive you can't be sure it's as good as the pics and narrative say it is. This one turned out to be a VG buy.
The sword is 42 inches long with a 36x1.5 inch blade. The elliptical, double sided blade has impressive dynamics: 9mm thick at the guard and 6.5mm thru the forte. Midshaft is 4.6mm and the foible finishes 2mm. Sword weighs 2.5 lbs (with a .1lb sword knot attached ). The pob is out at 8 inches; but this is because the hilt is so Spartan in composition. The sword is quick and very agile. No wonder it was immediately popular thruout Western Europe. A few pics here to get you started. The rest are at photobucket:
s747.photobucket.com/user/kelly1863/library/Walloon%20Pallasch?sort=2&page=1
