Very Early Scottish broadsword blade in Indian PATA

Jim McDougall · 24th July 2025, 09:01 PM

LOL! Thank you Keith!
I truly am often amazed at how many things have gone right past me!
Then suddenly?....uh four decades later!!! bonk!

This was not an ANDREA FERARA blade, those were fullered differently and typically might have the sickle marks or quadrant dots or X's but never the cosmology.

This blade I think was likely 17th century, perhaps second half, and these kinds of German blades did make it to Germany. I recently found detail noting that in India the German blades were preferred vs. English, which they saw as useless for poor quality.

24th July 2025, 09:01 PM	#3
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,571	LOL! Thank you Keith! I truly am often amazed at how many things have gone right past me! Then suddenly?....uh four decades later!!! bonk! This was not an ANDREA FERARA blade, those were fullered differently and typically might have the sickle marks or quadrant dots or X's but never the cosmology. This blade I think was likely 17th century, perhaps second half, and these kinds of German blades did make it to Germany. I recently found detail noting that in India the German blades were preferred vs. English, which they saw as useless for poor quality.