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7/19/2025, 4:32:12 PM
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It entirely depends on what decoration was done and what era. In later periods (1400s+) acid etching was expensive, but IIRC was able to be done by a large portion of the gentry and in some cases well off free-men. Swords during this period were fairly common side arms and easily made due to blast furnaces pumping out a good amounts of billets that were high quality. Mail was also common due to it being produced for so long and there being so much of it to repurpose and reuse.
Swords were really only prohibitively expensive in the migration era, early medieval period and somewhat into the high medieval period. Swords as a sidearm in war went from 1:10 to 4:10 from the migration era to the early medieval period and then just went up from there. By the high medieval period (1000's to 1300s) people had blast furnaces, water powered hammers, washing machines, cranes and the beginnings of automation. Pretty impressive stuff IMO.
It entirely depends on what decoration was done and what era. In later periods (1400s+) acid etching was expensive, but IIRC was able to be done by a large portion of the gentry and in some cases well off free-men. Swords during this period were fairly common side arms and easily made due to blast furnaces pumping out a good amounts of billets that were high quality. Mail was also common due to it being produced for so long and there being so much of it to repurpose and reuse.
Swords were really only prohibitively expensive in the migration era, early medieval period and somewhat into the high medieval period. Swords as a sidearm in war went from 1:10 to 4:10 from the migration era to the early medieval period and then just went up from there. By the high medieval period (1000's to 1300s) people had blast furnaces, water powered hammers, washing machines, cranes and the beginnings of automation. Pretty impressive stuff IMO.
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