Post cool swords or swords you like, talawar of Mughal leader Aurugnzeb
>>64653927Broadsword of cromwell
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>>64653927That disc pommel makes it practically decorative/non-functional, unless you ONLY want to do draw cuts. I hate Indian swords so much bros.
Sudanese kaskara, I just like it.
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>>64653929>>64653931Is it regularly bathed in the blood of the Irish?
>>64653945So post ones u like
>>64654004For me, it's the katana.
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>>64654129>>64654532capeshit
>>64654129Always thought they looked like ass
>>64653945>NOOOOO!!! You can't just use swords on a manner they've been used throughout most of human history! Because... you just CAN'T, OKAY?!!
>>64654583>on a manner they've been used throughout most of human historySaar, go wash away your wojak filth in the nearby open shitting pit and drown yourself while you are at it.
>>64654595Saar, very few swords were made specifically for thrusting. Even those evolved from blades that were swung, saar. SAAR!
>>64654609Failing to distinguish between draw cuts and all other types is very much like you, saar. Must be the enlightenment only achevable through eating pounds of cow shit.
>>64654614Saar, how do you believe draw cuts evolved, saar? SAAR!
>>64654624>Still fails to distinguish between other cutsOh god, he's feasting on cow shit right now!
Why is it the gayer someone looks the more capable with the sword they are?
>>64653958>>64653971sexooooo
Zweihander
>>64654778african swords are cool
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>>64654825They have weird knives with multiple blades sticking out.
>>64654865i like how arab swords were straight until the turqsi also wanna get one XDhttps://peserey.com/product/14-15th-century-mamaluke-sword-with-wolf-handguard-2/
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A court rapier with prominent turquoise glass decoration. It belonged to Archduke Sigismund Franz of Austria-Tirol (another side branch of the Habsburg family). The only really noteworthy thing about him was that he was the bishop for Augsburg, Gurk-Klagenfurt and Trient without actually being ordained as a priest or bishop. Around 1665 he renounced those positions as he wished to marry but he died (and with him the entire family branch) before the marriage ever was carried out. Still a cool piece.>>64653929Very nice!>>64654825The fifth and thirteenth from the left for me.
A very nice cup-hilted rapier with parrying dagger. The blades were made in Solingen, Germany while the rest is of spanish manufacturing.
I like my katana
This longsword belonged to Emperor Maximilian I. On the blade H.M.I.A.D is enscribed, which stands for "Halt Maß in allen Dingen" (Moderation in all things) which was the motto of a small knightly/noble social order that was established in 1517 by a close confidant of the Emperor. The sword itself is dated to 1480.
Another sword that belonged to Emperor Maximilian I. It was a gift for his marriage with Bianca Maria Sforza and was made in Milan in 1494.
A Pappenheim style rapier of italian manufacture.>>64655472Are those "golden" splashes on the sheath deliberate decorations?
A sword that belonged to Kasper von Frundsberg, the son of the famous Georg von Frundsberg, the Father of the Landsknechte. Much like his father he was a succesful 16th century general for the armies of the HRE, which succesfully fought in Italy.
A Katzbalger that belonged to Ulrich von Schellenberg, who was another of Emperor Maximilian I. generals. He was also knighted in person by Maximilian I. The sword is dated to 1515.
A Großes Messer dated to 1500.
Another Katzbalger; dated to 1540. Here the pretzel shaped guard is nicly visible.
>>64654825how very fantasy looking yet functional.
Nordic Bronze Age Sword or just Bronze Age European sword such as the ones made from imported bronze ingots in Scandinavia.Ancient Nordic peoples may not have been able to make their own bronze due to a lack of tin but they had trade routes to get bronze ingots.
>>64653927It was funny to learn that the club my family belongs to had people fighting in the Civil War.
>>64653958How do these niggernese get so tasteful
I have a questionI've been to the arms museum in Viena and Paris>>64655457One of my favorites form the austrian museum btw, the rapiers are all gorgeous Are medieval-early modern weapons not being full of decorations and details historically correct and museum pieces is just survival bias or did hollywood slop ruined our perception of our ancestors because they wanted cheaper props?
>>64655901The blades are actually from Germany African warriors had some really exotic mixes like European swords and Indian armor
>>64655939The vast majority of swords would have no decorations. Until the high middle ages your average food soldier would be lucky to have a sword at all.
>>64655964The polearms were also decorated and they didnt have any inscription saying they belonged to a rich person though, thats why I wonderOnly the zweihanders were plain but I'm guessing there is a practical reason for it
>>64656021>The kaskara, a straight, double-edged sword characteristic of Sudan, Chad, and Eritrea, typically featured blades that were either locally produced from bloomery iron refined into steel or directly imported and repurposed. Many surviving examples, especially from the 18th–19th centuries, incorporate blades of European origin (often from Solingen in Germany, Toledo in Spain, or other centers), which were traded across the Mediterranean and North Africa, then routed southward through Egypt or trans-Saharan networks. These imported blades were frequently remounted with local Sudanese hilts (cruciform guards, leather-wrapped grips, and disk pommels).>Some kaskara also used Iranian crucible steel blades (known for their watered pattern) or North African sources. Local smiths sometimes imitated European markings on their own forgings, blurring the lines, but genuine trade blades are well-documented in museum pieces and historical accounts.Bro did you actually think sub saharians had metal industry even in modernity?
>>64655997>The polearms were also decorated and they didnt have any inscription saying they belonged to a rich person though, that's why I wonderWell, keep in mind that the Austrian museum in question here is the Hof Jagd- und Rüstkammer, ie by and large the personal collection of the Habsburg Emperors. That rather sets the tone, even if a large chunk of the current collection is stuff that belonged to people of lesser economic and social status.To see more of arms and armour of the common soldier try the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum instead, or even better head out to the Landeszeughaus in Graz where there's a preserved old "army depot" style armoury (to the best of my knowledge the only such in the world). Plenty of less decorated stuff there...
...though still often not completely bereft of decorative elements.>>64656034Some regions had significant metalworking in the era before the European industrial revolution, yes. It (the smelting side in particular) was then greatly diminished by said revolution as Europe started flooding the world market with relatively cheap iron, and the colonial era generally didn't exactly help either.See for example https://www.mediafire.com/file/oce3zvk9e1kjdb9/Blooms_of_Banjeli.pdf/file
>>64655794Looks like a copy of the leftmost one here. Scandinavian manufacture (but as you noted likely imported bronze, Greece seems like a likely source due to all the Baltic amber found down there), ca 1700-500 BC, found in Östergötland and nowadays on display at the Museum of Cultural History in Stockholm.
>>64656062So the truth is in the middle, most soldiers didnt have works of art but they werent plain metal either
Now for more practical weapons: a Reiterschwert (cavalry sword) from the middle of the 16th century. Pic is from the German Blade Museum in Solingen, the place where the sword was also created. And the following pictures are from said museum as well. >>64655895Club as in a social association or what?>>64655939Are medieval-early modern weapons not being full of decorations and details historically correct and museum pieces is just survival bias or did hollywood slop ruined our perception of our ancestors because they wanted cheaper props?There is a stark difference between dress swords meant to be worn at court and battlefield weapons. The latter are usually more plain and rougher in their workmanship.>>64656132Yes.
Since KM is here; a brief excursion to the museum of the Imperial Castle at Nürnberg. Some swords.
Daggers
More daggers.
More swords.
Schlachtschwerter (Battleswords) - Zweihänder is a misnomer when it comes to those swords.
More Schlachtschwerter
Related to the topic of decorated polearms: here some pieces that were explicitly used by the guards/trabants.
>>64656241They certainly weren't afraid of taking stylistic features to the very extreme when they made that rondel dagger.>>64656247And that's a take on dussack basket decoration I haven't seen before.
And here some more ordinary polearms. Sans the one on the right.
>>64656263>Glaive HalberdI like it.
>>64656263Last from Nürnberg a dedicated dueling rapier which is specifically focused on the thrust. Note the cruciform cross-section of the blade. It belonged to the fencing master Johann Andreas Schmid.>>64656262>rondel daggerFrom the shape I assume that they took the notion of "staking" it into somebody very seriously with that piece. Which fits the purpose of a Misericordia.>dussack basket/k/nobbed for his pleasure
Back to Solingen with a Felddegen (field sword) from the first half of the 17th century.>>64656271Iirc it was a 18th or 19th century fantasy piece.
>>64656312Forgot the pic
Another 17th century field sword.
>>64656323Note here the guard.
>>64654726Gay olympic style fencing has had too much influence on pop culture's idea of fencing.
>>64656259That glaive is beautiful, man
I've always been partial to the weaponry carried by Louis XXIV's totally badass gay faggot bodyguards.
>>64653945>That disc pommel makes it practically decorative/non-functional, unless you ONLY want to do draw cuts...That's how it's designed to be used, yes. It's not "decorative" it's fundamentally how the sword is used. The opposite of decorative.>nooo but I can't act like an Italian fencer!Yes. That's because they didn't fight like that. Does your retard ass cry about migration era and viking swords too?
>>64656787Viking era anything is generally cringe and retarded.
>>64656787>Does your retard ass cry about migration era and viking swords too?That's funny, my mind went to the exact same place. People like that guy are why viking sword replicas have handles that are way too long.
