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Jens Nordlunde · 8th December 2019, 02:34 PM

When it comes to markings, I just found a funny quote in Sultans of the South. MET, 2008. Swords in the Deccan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Their Manufacture and the Influence of European Imports. On p. 224 Robert Elgood writes, 'English swordsmiths followed the custom of their Solingen contemporaries and struck whatever mark on the blade seemed likely to impress a potential buyer.'

So it was not only the Indian swordsmiths who copied the European maks, the Europeans copied each others marks as well.

kronckew · 8th December 2019, 04:56 PM

I also see the "Man in the Moon" in profile.

8th December 2019, 02:34 PM	#1
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	When it comes to markings, I just found a funny quote in Sultans of the South. MET, 2008. Swords in the Deccan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Their Manufacture and the Influence of European Imports. On p. 224 Robert Elgood writes, 'English swordsmiths followed the custom of their Solingen contemporaries and struck whatever mark on the blade seemed likely to impress a potential buyer.' So it was not only the Indian swordsmiths who copied the European maks, the Europeans copied each others marks as well.

8th December 2019, 04:56 PM	#2
kronckew Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Room 101, Glos. UK Posts: 4,224	I also see the "Man in the Moon" in profile.