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Post by djurpet on Jul 22, 2020 19:29:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 0:00:57 GMT
Welcome aboard,
Some dimensions might help, as well as the one missing grip/hilt profile. I'll start with an "I don't know" but will include that it is not a Bavarian 1826 (inside joke).
Cheers GC
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Post by djurpet on Jul 23, 2020 1:59:00 GMT
Welcome aboard, Some dimensions might help, as well as the one missing grip/hilt profile. I'll start with an "I don't know" but will include that it is not a Bavarian 1826 (inside joke). Cheers GC It’s 36.5” long with a 32” blade. Here are some extra pics
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Post by Uhlan on Jul 23, 2020 15:21:00 GMT
Though it is made in the style of the French AN XI for Officers, with the dove head pommel cap and the insciption on the ricasso, it is most probably not. Problem is that none of the regulation variants for other than the French nation I know of have a dove head pommel cap. The insciption I cannot read. Would you be so kind and try to clean there a bit with alcohol and a cotton tip and read what's under there? I am quite sure it was made at Solingen, but having the name of the forge could be helpful.
Cheers.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 17:44:07 GMT
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Post by berntk on Jul 23, 2020 20:34:06 GMT
Am I seeing right, that the backstrap goes through the quillons and is bent/peened parallell to it? Not that I know what that means, but it seems somewhat unusual, and perhaps will help identifying the thing...
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Post by djurpet on Jul 23, 2020 21:21:27 GMT
Am I seeing right, that the backstrap goes through the quillons and is bent/peened parallell to it? Not that I know what that means, but it seems somewhat unusual, and perhaps will help identifying the thing... Thank you all for your help. It looks really similar to the Bavarian sword except the quillon is a bit shorter and more curved (it might have been bent after manufacture though) and the tip is not as clipped as the Bavarian one. I am now 90% sure the inscription says Solingen. I can read ?OL(IN?)??N. The backstrap goes into the bottom of the quillon but is not peened on top of it.
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Post by Uhlan on Jul 23, 2020 21:35:09 GMT
Think the Bavarian Edelweiss found is the one. Not all of them had clipped points. That was an Officers preference. Many backstraps had a notch that went into the guard. Some were secured with a wedge and some were not. Others were secured by a ferule, a metal band around the underside of the grip.
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