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Old swords

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  • 11-10-2013 12:24pm
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    diveshark
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭


    HI There folks,

    looking to try get any information at all about the attached?
    numbers stamped on each. they are not the same numbers though.
    scabbard feels like really worn leather

    thanks in advance


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    gobnaitolunacy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Open to correction, but look like reproductions of ancient swords, possibly for re-enactors or stage/movies?


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    diveshark
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭diveshark


    fair enough.

    would anyone know if there is somewhere in dublin/wicklow they could be appraised?

    ta


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    R.Dub.Fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭R.Dub.Fusilier


    diveshark wrote: »
    HI There folks,

    looking to try get any information at all about the attached?
    numbers stamped on each. they are not the same numbers though.
    scabbard feels like really worn leather

    thanks in advance

    They look French to me. Have seen the one on the left before and is not a reproduction. Having said that I don't think you will get a lot for them.


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    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    diveshark wrote: »
    fair enough.

    would anyone know if there is somewhere in dublin/wicklow they could be appraised?

    ta

    You could try Mullen's at Laurel Park, north side of Bray.


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    molders
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭molders


    Have a look at the link below;

    http://swordscollection.blogspot.ie/2012/02/french-infantry-gladius-briquet-1831.html

    The sword looks ok to me from the photo, as to value hard to say in this climate, heres a clean one on ebay for $295;

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-French-1831-Pattern-Artillery-Sidearm-Sword-Coup-Choux-/300990560197?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item46146f77c5

    Guessing a bit here but you'd probably get a couple of hundred Euro for the pair at auction?


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    roughneck
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭roughneck


    hi your long sword is french issued from thw napolanic wars to about the 1830s ,they called it a cabbage cutter due to how crap it was in thh field ,the other is either a cut down french bayonet circa 1870-1880 or a german made bayonet /fieldknife made for the american market from 1840to the end of the civil war in 1865 ,a few more pics of the numbers and makers marks shuld solve the puzzle .


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