A nimcha that was not.... :-)

[Jim McDougall]

Thanks very much Ariel. It does seem of course that certain marks and symbolic motif were often used collectively to allude to blade quality and talismanic imbuement.
What I am wondering is where in the world did the 'Transylvanian knot' term come from, who used it , and what did that mean? Was the illustration plate you showed from the Kovacs book?