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Allen, your reasoning pretty much goes along with mine. I always had the impression that it was used as more of a general and somewhat dubious term to refer to those compound guards that enclosed the grip in a series of metal bars including basket hilts, mortuary hilts, some rapier hilts and so on (...

I was wondering if somebody could please explain to me the difference between basket hilts and cage hilts, or are they the same? I've seen the terms used synonymously in the context of such swords as the broadsword and schiavona but have also seen "cage hilt" used to refer to swept hilt ra...