While we plan another couple of minor sales and closeouts this month, so far without a doubt the APOC deal where you can get a full 9260 Survival set of swords for less than $110 a piece shipped is pretty much as good as it can possibly get, if you like Claymore’s – then THIS special deal, which is not a flash deal but is good for the whole month of August, is most definitely for you.
Best way to sum it up?
It’s really well tempered, distally tapered, central fullered, balanced only 5″ from the guard, lightweight (4lbs 4oz) for its massive 40.5″ blade and 13.75″ handle, and it’s hard to argue that its pretty good value at $389. But for $229.99 for brand new fresh stock – that’s a whole lot of quality steel for pennies on the dollar.. Do we really need to say more?
A little Claymore/Claidheam-hmor history..
Puritans maintain that the Claymore references later single handed, basket hilt Scottish swords, but when most collectors think of Claymore, they are technically referring the Gaelic word “claidheam-hmor” which means ‘great sword’. But whatever they were called, they were truly terrifying weapons of war on the battlefield.
Here is a record of an aftermath from a heated battle near the pass of Killiecrankie in 1689:
“... the enemy lay in heaps almost in the order they were posted; but so disfigured with wounds, and so hashed and mangled, that even the victors could not look upon the amazing proofs of their own agility and strength without surprise and horror.
Many had their heads divided into two halves by one blow; others had their sculls cut off above the ears by a back-strock, like a night-cap. Their thick buffe-belts were not sufficient to defend their shoulders from such deep gashes as almost disclosed their entrails. Several pikes, small-swords, and the like weapons were cut quite through, and some that wore skull caps had them so beat into their brains that they died upon the spot.“
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