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The basket-hilted sword was a cut and thrust sword which found the most use in a military context, contrasting with the rapier, the similarly heavy thrust-oriented sword most often worn with civilian dress which evolved from the espada ropera or spada da lato type during the same period.
From a well known group of swords made for the Amsterdam Town Guard in the mid-17th Century, this sword is of typical “Walloon” style, with two large side-rings, each filled with a plate featuring pierced stars and circles.
The first picture shows a Walloon type sword common in Central Europe of German origins from the later phase of the 30-year war which in German-speaking areas sometimes are called “Swedendegen” or if the blade is curved “Schwedensäbel.”
Lighter than The Small Sword, The Walloon Blade was more flexible than the rigid Small Sword – while still maintaining the needed blade width of a “standard” Field Sword. Considered a single-edged weapon, some versions were modified as double-edged.
Walloon Sword. This basket-hilted broadsword is of a type often called a Walloon. It has symmetrical pierced plates on each side of the guard, and additional hand protection in the form of curved side bars connecting the rings to the knucklebow.
English Walloons provided a stylish alternative to the other sword patterns that were in use throughout the English Civil War period, the Restoration period, and in the battles fought during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when James II was deposed.
Walloon sword. The historian and sword typologist Ewart Oakeshott proposed an English origin for this type of sword, with subsequent development in the Netherlands and Germany. Basket-hilted rapiers and sword-rapiers, characterised by pierced shell-guards, made during the same period are known as Pappenheimer rapiers.
Most walloon swords would be considered to be Haudegen. "Degen" simply was the fasionable word for "sword" in the period in question and any type of sword was called a "Degen". But these days mostly Rapiers and Smallswords have come to be associated with the term, which is probably why somebody started calling singlehanded cut-and-thrust-swords ...
Walloon`s Sword with thumb-ring. These swords were in service with the French cavalry of the 17th century. Swords had relatively wide piercing-slashing two-edged blades, designed to fight with the enemy, protected by the cuirass. Spring tempered steel.
This one is a 17th-18th century Walloon-hilted sword with a straight, double-edged diamond section blade. It has been characterized in the past as a haudegen but my impression is that those are often broader and more cutting-focused.