03-21-2015, 12:28 PM
Quote:Ewart Oakeshott included this sword in his "Archeology of Weapons". It was supposedly found in river Scheldt. So it is likely that it's an original. Of course, it's not definite, a victorian replica could have ended up in a river too, somehow...
many fakes from the 19th century ended up in museums where some of them were only found to be fakes in newest times by modern examinations.
it`s not that unfamiliar hock:
Als Mensch zu dumm, als Schwein zu kleine Ohren...
Jürgen Graßler
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Jürgen Graßler
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