Pino's arsenal

The basis, in my opinion, of any good collection is the library of books and source material/references necessary to do a good research in order to identify correct patterns and avoid fakes so I'll start by presenting my trusty books who never failed to show me the light and guide me towards rigorous sword knowledge. 





Eastern Europe

Polish swords:

- A Collector's Guide Poland Edged Weapons 16th-20th Century Reference Book
- Dzieje szabli w Polsce (Włodzimierz Kwaśniewicz)
Polish Szabla patterns
- Szabel nam nie zabraknie (Pawel Komorowski)
covering the multitude of local and foreign (Russian, French, British) swords used by the Poles from the 1700s to present day.
- Zbiory Muzeum Wojska Polskiego w Warszawie (Marianna Brzuskiewicz)
Museum's military artifacts collection

Russian Empire:

- Russian Military Swords 1798-1946 (Janusz Jaroslawski)
- Russian Edged Weapons, Polearms and bayonets 18-20th c. Volume I + Volume II. (A.N. Kulinsky)
- Russian Military Swords, 1801-1917 (Eugene Mollo)
- An obscure Russian book about Ukrainian and Russian Cossacks swords, sabres and armour from the 17th to the 19th cent.


Austro-Hungarian swords:

- With Drawn Sword: The Austro-Hungarian Edged Weapons from 1848 to 1918 (M. Christian Ortner, Erich Artlieb)
- Ungarischer Säbel und Husaren-Pallasch ( Friedrich Jäger)
Hungarian sabres of the 19th cent.
- Les armes traditionnelles de l'Europe centrale (Iaroslav Lebedynsky)
- Evolution of Central and Eastern European edged weapons and armour (17th-20th cent)
- Chladne Zbrane v Habsburske Monarchii (Jan Šach)
- Regulation swords of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Palaše habsburské monarchie (Jiří Protiva)
Heavy cavalry patterns of the Empire from the 1700s to the 1840's



British and Commonwealth:

- The British Cavalry Sword 1788-1912: Some New Perspectives (Richard Dellar)
- Swords of the British Army (Brian Robson)
- British Basket-Hilted Swords: A Typology of Basket-Type Sword Hilts (Cyril Mazansky)
- Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland (Richard Bezdek)
- Canadian Cavalry Swords 1810 to 1940 (Military collectors club of Canada)
- British military swords from 1800 to the present day (John Wilkinson-Latham)
- The British Cavalry sword form 1600 (Charles Martyn)
- British Naval Swords and Swordsmanship (Mark Barton, John McGrath)


Western Europe

- Storia dell'arma Bianca Italiana (Cesare Calamandrei)
Italian military swords
- Vivat Hussar - Le lame degli Ussari, Sciabole e uniformi dal XVII secolo alla fine dell'Impero napoleonico (Tiziano Tonelli)
- Espadas Espanolas (Vicente Toledo Momparler)
Spanish military swords
- Griffwaffen, Siebenter Band in Der Reihe Bewaffung Und Ausrustung Der Schweizer Armee Seit 1817 (Hugo Schneider; Jürg A Meier)
Swiss military swords
- Charge! Cavalry Sabre Sale - Venduehuis catalog of swords from the Rijksmuseum
- Blanke Wapens (Jan Puype)
Dutch military swords




Misc

- Cut and Thrust Weapons (Eduard Wagner)
- European and American Arms (Claude Blair)
- Arms and Armour (Stephen Bull) *Not in picture*
- Encyclopédie illustrée : Les Armes blanches (Jan Sach)
- Swords and Daggers (Eduard Wagner)



German Empires


- Imperial German Edged Weapon Catalogue and Price Guide (Gerhard Windbeil)
- Imperial German Regimental Marking (Jeff Noll)
- Die Waffen der Königlich Bayerischen Armee 1806-1918 (Horst F. Plank)
Bavarian military regulation swords
- Preussische Blankwaffen Vol 1-8; Bayerische Blankwaffen Vols 1-3; Süddeutsche Blankwaffen-Württemberg & Baden (Gerd Maier)
Prussian, Bavarian, Wurttemberg an Baden swords and edged weapons.




- Imperial German Edged Weaponry (Thomas M. Johnson with Victor Diehl and Thomas Wittmann)
- German Swords and Sword Makers : Edged Weapon Makers from the 14th to the 20th Centuries (Richard H.Bezdek)
- German Swords XVIII - XX Century (Janusz Jaroslawski)
- Infanterieoffizierdegen 1889 und Varianten (Reiner Herrmann & Peter Hartmann)
- Der Blücher-Säbel : Ergänzendes zu einem mehrfach behandelten Thema (Gerhard J R Seifert; Claus P Stefanski)
Covering all aspects of the Blucher sabre from 1808 to 1935
- Edged weapons of German states (A.N. Kulinsky)
- Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie. Solingen: Catalogue of 1892
-Blankwaffen aus drei Jahrhunderten. Zeugnisse Sächsischer Waffengeschichte (Klaus Hilbert)
Kingdom of Saxony (1600-1918)
- Eickhorn Edged Weapons Exports Vol. 1 Latin America (Alejandro M De Quesada)


- German Swords of World War II, A Photographic Reference Volumes I and II (Thomas M. Johnson)
- Kriegsprache : glossary of World War II German military (Thomas L. Houlihan)
3rd Reich markings and abbreviations.
- Exploring the Dress Daggers and Swords of the German SS (Thomas Wittmann)
- WKC Sales Catalog
- Sword of Germany 1900-1945 (John Angolia and Gregory Douglas)
- Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie : Musterbuch and Catalog 1885


France
- Les armes blanches militaires françaises (Christian Aries & Michel Pétard)
- Sabres français, 1680-1814 (Christian Blondiau)
- Des sabres et des épées Vol 1-3 (Michel Pétard)
- Les Sabres Portés par l'Armée Française (Jean L'Hoste; Patrick Resek)
- Armes Blanches Symbolisme, Inscriptions, Marquages, Fourbisseurs, Manufactures (Jean Hoste & JJ. Buigne)
Sword makers, markings and meaning of symbols.
- Balp sword maker catalog of 1930
- Procédés de la fabrication des armes blanches, publiés par ordre du Comité de salut public (François-Antoine Rauch 1762-1837)
- L'Emploi du sabre. Etude du combat à l'arme blanche, 31 mai 1882 (Charles-Lavauzelle) not in picture
- La Manufacture d'armes de Klingenthal (Association pour la Sauvegarde du Klingenthal)


- La Cavalerie Legere Du Premier Empire (Michel Petard)
- Les Sabres des Hussards (Michel Petard)
- Les Armes de Cavalerie (Gazette des armes Hors serie no 4 - Dominique Venner)
- L'armamento della cavalleria napoleonica dalla Repubblica all'impero 1792-1815 (Tiziano Tonelli)
French and Italian allies
- Sabres Français de la Restauration 1814 - 1830 (Jean Ondry)
- Sabres francais - 1830 - 1870: Du coq a l'aigle - Books I & II (Jean Ondry)
- Sabres Français de la IIIe République (Jean Ondry)