Collecting swords

[TinCow]

Not quite a collection, but I've got a few:



Left: M1850 Foot Officer's Sword with original rayskin grip
Right: Pre-WWI M1902 Officer's Sword (Scabbard is underneath)
Center: Spanish El Cid sword from Toledo, Spain (replica)

The replica is my wife's and it completes the arrangement nicely, but to be honest I don't like replicas. At some point I'll pick up a few more authentic pieces and take the replica down for good.

[Artificer]

Awesome collections everyone. Does anyone in this thread have a link for Napoleonic era reconstructions?

[Hepcat]

The replica is my wife's and it completes the arrangement nicely, but to be honest I don't like replicas. At some point I'll pick up a few more authentic pieces and take the replica down for good.

I'm the same. Replicas are cool but I'd always take an authentic one even if it's twice the price (provided I have the money of course).

Sadly I intended to start a collection of antiques beginning with a bayonet. I was on the lookout for one the entire trip in Europe and at the Alhambra there was a little store with all sorts in it where I finally found what I'd saved 600 Euros the entire trip for. A great bayonet. I quickly took a photo and shot off to find one of the teachers just to check whether they thought I'd be able to get it back to NZ. She thought it wouldn't be a problem so long as I declare it, but when I came back to the store, barely 5 minutes later it was all shut up and locked and the owner had gone!

So I went home without a bayonet, and had to give the 600 Euro (out of the total 800 I had for the entire trip) back to my parents who were shocked at how little I had spent.

But here is the photo I got of it anyway, sorry it's not very good but I was in a hurry:

The one I was going to get is the 2nd horizontal bayonet.