Louis Pierre and Ward, thank you so much for sharing these wonderful windows into the past showing the very places where these weapons were created! and the details of their assembly.
It really is amazing to see these weapons of so long ago themselves, but to see how and where they were created truly adds new dimension to our appreciation of them.
I spent some time looking through some references last night, and found that sabres from Algeria (presumably these 'nimcha') typically had German or Italian blades, and in one line illustration this circular stamp is shown on a blade in the exactly same quadrant. Apparantly then, foreign blades being mounted were indeed stamped with these marks, and sometimes even with subsequent markings in later refurbishing.
Interesting to see how 'travelled' these blades often were.
All the best,
Jim
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