Not nonsense at all, Fernando! I agree with you. This is a reworked blade made into a short sword. Not a naval piece, but I'd lay odds that it's Spanish colonial. They reused many old rapier and broadsword blades from earlier periods due to a shortage of materials. I've got two swords, one a bilbo-type and another, a Cuban cutlass (per Brinkerhoff's book), both with braised, reworked quillons, reworked hilts and much earlier blades. The construction on yours is primitive (no offense, I like it still!) and plain, typical of items found in New Spain or shortly after their independence (c.1780-1820's??). This is just my opinion, but it does stand to reason that anyone that would go to the trouble of refitting it was still using it. The blade is Spanish?
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