G'day Guys,
Thank you for your interest in my sword.
Roland, pipe-back blades seem to have first appeared in Britain around 1800 and I agree, the British swordsmiths may have been influenced by T-backed Turkish or Indo-Persian swords. Your tulwar has a blade that wouldn't look out of place on an early 19th century European sword. Your French light cavalry officer sabre was probably wholly manufactured in Solingen, not Turkey or India. I have seen quite a few Solingen manufactured mechanical Damascus blades from this period.
MacCathain, I don't have a copy of Lhoste and Buigne, but I agree, these types of "enigmatic symbols" are not uncommon on European swords from this period, but this particular arrangement of the panel of symbols and curling comet/foliage design seems to be unique to British swords.
Cheers,
Bryce
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