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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
I saw a sword that on a TV show once. The would-be seller clamed it waa authentic but the expert the show called in decided it was a fake. I've never seen an authentic one.
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Aside from the executioner's swords, I think there are a few blunt-tipped Broadswords in Egerton's
Indian and Oriental Arms and Armour, but my copy is in storage.
The idea that someone invented the sword-thrust came from gentleman-antiquarians before the First World War like Egerton Castle. There were not really any reliable histories of European martial arts in English before
Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe in 2000.