A hirschfanger named Marie

[mrwizard]

Hello Fernando and A Senefelder,

Thank you for your comments.

Fernando, you are right this looks a lot like the katzbalger blade in this post http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showpo...67&postcount=3
I didn't even think about katzbalgers because i dated this blade much later. Maybe the swordsmith was inspired by katzbalger blades.
In the unlikely case that this is indeed a shortened katzbalger blade i would have made the deal of my life...

As i wrote the crest is definitely that of William, Duke of Brunswick (1830-1884):
http://diglib.hab.de/?grafik=exlib-berlepsch-19-1-00130 *
The "honi soit..." motto is indeed from the Order of the Garter
and "Nec aspera terrent" is the motto of the Welfes. So, no surprise there.

I think the blade is older than the etching mainly because of the older
encraving indicating a "F. Duke of Brunswick". I wonder who could be meant by that...


Best Regards,
Thilo


* sorry for the link but i am not allowed to copy the picture to this forum

[fernando]

Originally Posted by mrwizard

... * sorry for the link but i am not allowed to copy the picture to this forum ...

Sure you can. This is precisely the first one that popped up in my search

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[fernando]

Originally Posted by mrwizard

... As i wrote the crest is definitely that of William, Duke of Brunswick (1830-1884): ...

Well, you can't say old William favoured originality

[fernando]

Originally Posted by mrwizard

... In the unlikely case that this is indeed a shortened katzbalger blade i would have made the deal of my life... ...

Not impossible; people of lineage fancied mounting their ancestors blades in their present swords .

[A Senefelder]

Not impossible; people of lineage fancied mounting their ancestors blades in their present swords

Actually Fernando, the similarity between the blade of the katzbalger on the right in your pic and the one mrwizard posted are substantial. The fullers of wizards blade running through the tip seem to indicate as he said that it has been reshaped. I'd say theres a chance for your idea of a rehilted kat blade being at least possible.