Earliest Use of Paired Crescent Moons on Solingen Blades

[stephen wood]

I think the sword with the Irish hilt almost certainly has a late 19th/early 20th German blade: I recognize the particular stamps. The invisible giveaway with these remounted kaskara blades is that the tang does not pass through the grip - it is shorter and pierced to accommodate a peg rather than to be peened at the pommel.