Interesting blade
 

Hello,
I have a child small sword with very informative blade. See pictures. Signatures:
Fur Maintz...Fur Trier...Fur Sachsen...Fur Pfaltz...Fur ?ustilia...Fur ???borg...Fur Braidenburg...Fur Bayern...Fur Colln...Ihro Kaiserlich Maust.
Are there any ideas on what it all mean?
Thank you in advance.

Maybe posting pictures in a way that we may see how the engraving of all those places was done. Would they have been engraved one after the other, as to illustrate where the owner has sequently been ... doing service, residing or in visit. Or could it be that the places were all engraved in the same moment, in the end of all that traveling. Easy to distinguish between both possibilities, observing the lettering aspect.
Or we are facing a completely different subject ?!
Hoping our fellow members come up with some enlightening :cool:

Those are the territories of the Prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire. "Fur" simply means "for" I think, and "Kaiserlich" would probably refer to something of the Emperor's or imperial. Perhaps the last word is macht ("makes", according to google) rather than maust?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince-elector

Hi,
these are alle territories in former Germany:
archbishops land: Mainz and Trier, Cölln (Colongne)
and Territories: Sachsen, Pfaltz, Brandenburg, Bayern (Bavaria), Mecklenburg, ?
"Für" means for.
and the rest maybe "Ihro Kaiserlich. Majest." meaning "The royal majesty"

Maybe a Signature when the Germany Country was build out of the autonom Kingdoms in 1871 (Reichsgründung)

Dirk

Don't know about the markings, but pattern is circa 1750-ish, based on large pas 'd ane, flat/pierced outward-jutting guards, etc. Has it been silvered, chromed? Painted? The surface just looked a little too shiny for me?

Hi Karlo,

Nice sword.
Steel hilt? Nice silver wire binding.
Could you possibly post a picture of the hilt next to a ruler/measure so I can compare the dimensions with a childs smallsword of mine?