Thanks for the information. I have looked in Neumann, found close examples, but the markings and bilobate guard of that heavy weight pushed me from thinking American or British.
The fact that it came from a junk shop near to Des Allemands years ago before a lot of stuff has been moved around from collectors to dealers and back several times is of interest to me, " right out of the woodwork" as they say. I remember thinking at the time I was walking out with it thinking it was one of those big, heavy American Rev War era cavalry broadswords and being at tad disappointed that it didn't match examples in my minimal library of that time.
Somehow fate saved me from trading it off or selling it. I have finally grown attached to it, wisdom and a little bit of sense coming a bit late, but, fortunately, not too late!
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