A Collectors Guide to Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses (Hardcover)

~ Gerald Weland (Author)

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Product Description

A lively, fact-filled text and hundreds of full-color illustrations highlight a comprehensive collector's guide to edged weapons, from Turkish scimitars to SS daggers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Grange books (August 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555217265
• ISBN-13: 978-1555217266
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,569,671 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars At least the pictures are good, but ..., January 19, 1999

By A Customer

This book is decent, but I question its accuracy. Its best section is on cutlasses and naval weapons. The pictures are good, but woefully mislabled. (E.g..- the lables for a page with five daggers is supposed to read clockwise from the top. In fact, the labels are completely mixed up.) Also, some categories lack even sketches of the weapons (e.g.-the Indian bhuj) and his verbal description makes no sense. Overall the book will fill out a weapons library, but I would recommend Anthony North's "Swords and Hilt Weapons" for starting out.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Better as a coffee-table book than a research source..., February 3, 2002

By	chromatic-aberration (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews

If this is the first book on collecting swords that you get, make sure that you get a second and a third before you even -think- of going shopping. If this were the only guide that you were to bring with you into the world of sword collecting, there is a good chance you will embarrass yourself in front of even slightly knowledgeable dealers. Throughout the book, the proofreading is poor; that is, if it was proofread. Numerous captions are incorrect, and the authors research and conclusions are questionable at best. Conversely, this book does have some excellent photographs (many of which I have never seen elsewhere). Given the inexpensive price, it is worth purchasing for that reason alone.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Collectors Guide to Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses, January 13, 2002

By	"carddeals" (DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This book should have been titled a historical analysis of Swords, Daggers, and Cutlasses. It gives a working basic knowledge of edged weapons. However there is no pricing information to be found in this book.
It has many excellant pictures of edged weapons. However it gives a limited perspective of each catagory which leaves the reader salivating for more.