"Salus Vienna Tua" on sword

[A Senefelder]

I hope this isnt taken wrong, but for us 'old timers' these resources, Museum of Historical Arms and of course the well known Fagan catalogs were quite notorious as the origins of a number of rather fanciful classifications now over four decades ago.

Jim agreed, it was the fact that one of these appeared in both with similar attributations that lead me to to believe that there might be some validity. The catalogs were the better part of two decades apart ( one 60's, one 80's ) so the idea that perhaps one had " pirated " the descritpion from the other seemed somewhat unlikely. As I mentioned, when I put mine up for sale I had several people contact me about the ones they owned and several sent me pictures. One person who sent me pics of thiers was the all steel type, Foxbats second sword pictured. Fox's pic of the steel version worn during the reign on Pope Paul has peaked my interest as it seems some other attributation is likely.