Stick sword
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| Weapon type: | Epee, hidden weapon |
| Designations: | Stick sword, Degenstock , Gupti (India) |
| Use: | weapon |
| Working time: | til today |
| Region of origin / author: |
Europe |
| Distribution: | Worldwide |
| Handle: | Wood, horn, ivory |
| Particularities: | Many variants, different equipment, blade shape and length |
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A Stockdegen (Degen floor) is a hidden stitch weapon , in which the handle of a walking stick a long, often three or four-sided, top and sometimes sharp blade is attached to the rest of the shaft of the stick as a sheath is used.
description
When pushed together, a stick rapier can hardly be distinguished from a conventional walking stick. With an appropriate construction of the locking of the handle / blade part and overall sufficient manufacturing quality, it can also be used fully in everyday life as such.
It was most widespread in the 19th and early 20th centuries as an accessory and concealed (reserve) self-defense weapon, especially by well-off men, for whom a walking stick was often fashionable anyway and who had also acquired at least basic knowledge of fencing as part of their training . As early as the 19th century, weapons manufacturers were obliged not to manufacture or sell these weapons; a special permit could be issued for travelers who wanted to carry the weapon with them for self-defense. In Victorian melodrama , the sword, along with a dagger, poison and explosives, was part of the typical equipment of a villain .
In a variant of the stick sword, instead of a long rapier-like blade, only a knife , dagger or stiletto blade is attached, for which a hollow part of the stick also serves as a sheath.
A similar weapon is the retractable blade stick . In this case, the blade, driven by a jerky movement, pops out of the stick.
Legal situation
Stick swords and the variants with shorter blades are, like other weapons disguised as everyday objects, classified in Germany as prohibited objects by the Weapons Act , the possession and carrying of which is forbidden and punishable by law. Stick swords are also prohibited in Switzerland and Austria.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Johann Georg Krünitz. Economic encyclopedia . 1773-1858. Online version at http://www.kruenitz1.uni-trier.de/ .
- ↑ See JA Cuddon. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory . Penguin, 2000. page 142.
- ↑ Heinz Werner Lewerken: Combination weapons of the 15th – 19th centuries . Century. Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic , 1989, ISBN 3327005168 , p. 133
- ↑ See Appendix 2 to the Weapons Act , No. 1.3.1
Web links
- Technical terms of edged weapons from Gerhard Seifert (PDF file; 1.26 MB)