🌲Hobo of The Dúnedain:🌼🍵 :mugicrest: on Nostr: Including two this time, because this is a great chance to show bowie evolution. The ...

Including two this time, because this is a great chance to show bowie evolution. The guardless coffin hilt is a very very early design. And several makers made them. (Compare these with bowie #1 above) Such as the mythical James Black. (One of the gents in the last photo) but you can see eventually, they started mounting guards to them, and eventually turned into what we call a dogbone type hilt.