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Dru
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posted 02-23-2005 10:33 AM     Profile for Dru   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I want to have a 14th C. falchion made and I don't know of any existing examples and relatively few pieces of iconographic evidence. Anyone have some good sources?

Thanks

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Dru Shoemaker
www.medievalshoes.com


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Mike
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posted 02-23-2005 10:55 AM     Profile for Mike     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Conyer's Falchion is the most obvious example, although it is supposed to be earlier. There is another, early 14th C example called Thope Falchion, discovered near Norwich. There's a bit here:
http://bjorn.foxtail.nu/h_conyers_eng.htm

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