Good note on the rose, and it seems I have seen this someplace but as yet unable to retrieve....what is the Solingen connection with rose on blade spine?
As far as I have known the British placed makers names on spines in latter 18th through 19th, and some Austrian blades have them, as well of course as French.
Blade decoration using these kinds of motifs was by no means a Solingen distinction, and European blades in Eastern Europe often have profuse themes, with hussars, 'vivat pandour', panoplies of arms etc. As noted, Solingen often duplicated many of these along with their use of spurious markings.
|