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Old 02-26-2022, 09:11 PM   #18
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Default Re: [Low-Tech] Smallsword with the Bronze Age 'Rapier?'

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Originally Posted by Donny Brook View Post
I meant are there any surviving ones of the tangless variety with intact handles.
How can you tell whether it has a tang if the handle is intact? You don't need to see an intact handle to know it never failed in combat, all you need is a blade with battle damage but no broken rivet holes.

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It's the tangless kind that I doubt are rubust enough for real use.
It doesn't matter whether you doubt it because it has been proven otherwise. I think this is the relevant article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25684288

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(I don't know who Mollloy is or what he did.)
https://people.ucd.ie/barry.molloy/publications
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