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Old 28th September 2012, 12:00 PM   #1
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I have a sword that is the sign of the image. Plase help me to identify. Thank you.
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Old 28th September 2012, 06:35 PM   #2
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A picture of the whole sword can be useful to identify your sword
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Old 28th September 2012, 07:21 PM   #3
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Looks like a coronet over something.
Coronet seems to have seven pearls?
Austrian/German?
A Freiherrnkrone (Barons Coronet)?

Is that a knotted rope underneath? A naval symbol?
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Old 28th September 2012, 11:28 PM   #4
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A Pretzel ?
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Old 29th September 2012, 05:20 PM   #5
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A Pretzel ?
Make it the King of Pretzels, until Multumesc shows us the complete sword
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Old 29th September 2012, 05:40 PM   #6
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Looks like a coronet over something.
Coronet seems to have seven pearls?
Austrian/German?
A Freiherrnkrone (Barons Coronet)? ...
It depends on which country. I guess in UK it has six pearls; in Portugal a Baron coronet doesn't even have 'standing up' pearls, only a round 'pearled' shape coronet.
Mind you, the counting of the pearls is usualy that of the frontal view. Indeed being the crown/coronet a three dimension object, the actual number of pearls is higher. Apparently and for example, the coronet of a (Portuguese) count (Earl) is said to have nine balls, but the actual number is sixteen.

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Old 29th September 2012, 06:29 PM   #7
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Hi Nando.
Indeed, the only seven pearl coronet I could find was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronet

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"The Holy Roman Empire, and consequently its successor states – Austria, Germany and others – had a system very similar to that of the British, although the design varied.
The normal Adelskrone for lower nobility ("Laubkrone") is a golden ring with pearls and precious stones that features eight tines of which typically only five are visible. Of these, the central and outer tines are normally leaves, whereas the others are headed by pearls. In the southern states of Bavaria and Württemberg quite often all tines are headed by pearls.
The Freiherrnkrone (baron's coronet) shows seven tines with pearls."
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Old 30th September 2012, 09:18 AM   #8
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I have attached a picture of the sword has a total length 103cm.
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Old 2nd October 2012, 01:55 AM   #9
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Hi Nando.
Indeed, the only seven pearl coronet I could find was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronet

From Wiki:

"The Holy Roman Empire, and consequently its successor states – Austria, Germany and others – had a system very similar to that of the British, although the design varied.
The normal Adelskrone for lower nobility ("Laubkrone") is a golden ring with pearls and precious stones that features eight tines of which typically only five are visible. Of these, the central and outer tines are normally leaves, whereas the others are headed by pearls. In the southern states of Bavaria and Württemberg quite often all tines are headed by pearls.
The Freiherrnkrone (baron's coronet) shows seven tines with pearls."

I'll raise your eight and show nine. Second empire French sword.



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