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2. Japanese swordsmithing - Wikipedia

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   Furthermore, cheap swords designed as wall-hanging or sword rack decorations often also have a "rat-tail" tang, which is a thin, usually threaded bolt of metal welded onto the blade at the hilt area. These are a major weak point and often break at the weld, resulting in a dangerous and unreliable sword.

3. Japanese sword mountings - Wikipedia

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   A sageo (下緒 or 下げ緒) is a hanging cord made of silk, cotton or leather that is passed through the hole in the kurigata (栗形) of a Japanese sword's saya. There are a number of different methods for wrapping and tying the sageo on the saya for display purposes. Other uses for the sageo are tying the sword to the samurai and hojojutsu ...

4. Scabbard - Wikipedia

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   In the event swords and scabbards were quickly discarded except for use by mounted cavalry. [9] Some military police forces, naval shore patrols, law enforcement and other groups used leather scabbards as a kind of truncheon. Mounting for a Japanese short sword 18th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art

5. List of premodern combat weapons - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of historical pre-modern weapons grouped according to their uses, with rough classes set aside for very similar weapons. Some weapons may fit more than one category (e.g. the spear may be used either as a polearm or as a projectile), and the earliest gunpowder weapons which fit within the period are also included.

6. Pattern 1831 sabre for General Officers - Wikipedia

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   The Pattern 1831 sabre for General Officers is a British army pattern sword prescribed for the use of officers of the rank of major-general and above. It has been in continuous use from 1831 to the present. It is an example of a type of sword described as a mameluke sabre.

7. Basket-hilted sword - Wikipedia

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   Basket-hilted rapiers and sword-rapiers, characterised by pierced shell-guards, made during the same period are known as Pappenheimer rapiers. [citation needed] The Walloon sword was favoured by both the military and civilian gentry. [25] A distinctive feature of the Walloon sword is the presence of a thumb-ring, and it was therefore not ...