Seeking help to identify a blade!

[MeleeTiger]

Originally Posted by Shakethetrees

I think the grip is throwing everyone off.

The blade tang does not appear to have been ever peened over to permanently lock everything together. It extends a good bit past where it should be.

I believe the blade and scabbard began life together, but the grip is from something else. This marriage might have been consummated fifty years ago in a souk or an antique shop. It was a marriage of convenience!

Indeed, I never really put much faith in the grip but that's what it came with so I included it in the photos especially since it seemed to be made of the same wood as the scabbard core beneath the crocodile hide.

[Gavin Nugent]

With the tang length seen protruding past the pommel area and given the base of the hilt shape I wonder if the pommel once looked like this one below but also with the added pommel spike.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=rhino+sudan

I suggest this because I also have a short sword length example with a Rhino horn hilt and similar markings but with the pommel spike/protrusion as seen on other types.

Gavin