| Show BRITISH CAVALRY SWORD straight blade t to new now pattern has facilitate thrusting and better guard cuard brit british ish C all the pattern ot of the te new now d t for 1 airy alry sword hai been approved approve manufacture tt differs daffe rs from those terns erns chiefly in I 1 a being beins of previous patterns rrt tapering b blade lade straight fitted with a the guard to I 1 to facilitate thrusting shaped to acord afford more protection on the left ride fide and the grip la in formed to fit the hand a recess for the thumb being cut in the back the scabbard from end to end Is a straight taper and made of steel the weight of 0 the sword Is about two pounds 14 ounces and the scabbard one pound six ounces historically the adoption of a thrust thru at ing sword Is of interest as being a re version of the single edged rapier ol 01 the seventeenth century the period when according to some of 0 our most eminent authorities the qualities of a fighting sword were best understood armor having practically gone out af 6 use and dreares being still very im perfect such an authority as capt hutton la a understood to object to a specialized for foi thrusting on abe ground that a man cannot fight his way out nut of a crowd with it it may too be objected that the sword la Is comparatively heavy but that may be due to the british troopers trooper a well known prejudice in favor ot of a certain amount of weight pall Pali mall gazette ra iette |
