11-05-2006, 12:38 PM
It is NOT a Falcata, as it lacks the profile of a true falcata; only the hilt resembles one. The profile of the main edge is not concave in its proximal part, so it is NOT a falcata of Spanish manufacture. Certainly it is NOT a kopis/machaira either of the Etruscan or Greek types.
Size is OK for a short sword. So far, ito me t looks a very late, (perhaps fashionable to a Roman officer?) version of a Spanish falcata by one who only had a slight idea of how falcatas looked like almost a century before.
Anyway, it is now certainly the last of its kind.
BTW, handgrip metal applications would be OK in a true falcata.
Size is OK for a short sword. So far, ito me t looks a very late, (perhaps fashionable to a Roman officer?) version of a Spanish falcata by one who only had a slight idea of how falcatas looked like almost a century before.
Anyway, it is now certainly the last of its kind.
BTW, handgrip metal applications would be OK in a true falcata.
