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Originally Posted by midelburgo
Not just Scottish swords, also ... This workshop touched everything.
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That does not surprise me. In the case of my examples, I never really suspected the first and after an experienced collector 'passed' it, I bought another from the same dealer and finding a few too many coincidences soon the seeds of suspicion began to sprout. I think that the blades on both of mine are actually good old German blades, but were taken from a sword of a style with less market value (so the greatest tragedy is if something genuine was vandalized rather than old dismounted blades merely remounted). One fell the other day when I was rehanging it and it remained standing upright after the tip buried over a half of an inch into wooden flooring. A good strong pull and it was free and there was no trace of any damage to the tip.