[Akanthus]

Westphal mentioned in his book that in this case they did not use the originally tang.They formed a new tang from the upper strong part of the blade. One of the cutting edges of the forner biconvex blade was removed to create a backblade which is a characteristic feature of German 17.century hunting swords. In result the wheel moves out of the centre of the blade ,witch is smaller now.So the blade is shorter and smaller .In my opinion it us difficult to decide whether the blade had a executive or a legislative history.