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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1651305" data-attributes="member: 17723">There is something kind of like that depicted in the Marjewescji (sp?) bible which they call a "war brand", it had about a 25" blade with a fairly long grip and no guard.  THere were also some early cutlasses which looked something like that but I don't think they existed before the 16the century.  I haven't seen too many blades wihch look like that, with the exception of some other falchions.  I'll see if I can find something though.This is replica of another subtype of the falchion here...<a href="http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/Falchion.jpg" target="_blank">http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/Falchion.jpg</a>This replica of a french "baudelaire" falchion as a kind of similar blade shape as well<a href="http://www.ereplicas.com/en-us/dept_229.html" target="_blank">http://www.ereplicas.com/en-us/dept_229.html</a>Most of them were more 'knife like' like this MRL replica<a href="http://www.ancientedge.com/product_22_detailed.html" target="_blank">http://www.ancientedge.com/product_22_detailed.html</a>You can see some photos of real falchions (other than the conyers blade) at <a href="http://myarmoury.com" target="_blank">http://myarmoury.com</a>, though most are rather late era (16th - 17th century)DBJR</blockquote>