[Low-Tech] Smallsword with the Bronze Age 'Rapier?'

[DanHoward]

Originally Posted by Donny Brook

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.

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

(I don't know who Mollloy is or what he did.)

https://people.ucd.ie/barry.molloy/publications