Do you think this is a genuine 1600 AD Knight's sword??

[S.Al-Anizi]

I honestly believe that this is a knightly sword, really nice sword too. Would love to see more of those on ebay instead of those damn chinese katanas. As for the selling price, its a shame, if I had the money, which I certainly dont, I would buy it at double the price set by the seller. Really beautiful sword.

[Michael Blalock]

This is a very controversial seller, aka EFTIS. He has had a number of miraculous medieval and viking swords for sale, all reported to have been excavated. By the way, here is another remarkable Viking Sword:

Ebay 7422232122

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[katana]

Originally Posted by Michael Blalock

This is a very controversial seller, aka EFTIS. He has had a number of miraculous medieval and viking swords for sale, all reported to have been excavated. By the way, here is another remarkable Viking Sword:

Ebay 7422232122

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Vikings on Camels... I thought camels are know as 'ships of the desert'.......must have mis-heard.....it obviously must be 'longships of the desert'........

[S.Al-Anizi]

However, he did have some credible stuff to sell:

http://cgi.ebay.com/EFTIS-UNIQUE-INL...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/EFTIS-MASTERPIEC...QQcmdZViewItem

[katana]

Originally Posted by S.Al-Anizi

However, he did have some credible stuff to sell:

http://cgi.ebay.com/EFTIS-UNIQUE-INL...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/EFTIS-MASTERPIEC...QQcmdZViewItem

Is it me ? but the inlay on both swords looks very new, and seems to follow the contours of the pitted areas........later additions?
I'm still laughing about the Viking Takouba......

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[S.Al-Anizi]

Originally Posted by katana

Is it me ? but the inlay on both swords looks very new, and seems to follow the contours of the pitted areas........later additions?
I'm still laughing about the Viking Takouba......

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Katana, you do realise that the inlay is gold, and gold doesnt react with time.

[katana]

Originally Posted by S.Al-Anizi

Katana, you do realise that the inlay is gold, and gold doesnt react with time.

The Crusader sword is described as having copper inlay and the Viking sword has having gold or copper inlay. Seeing that the inlays look very similar in method (not design), colour etc I assumed they were both copper.

It does strike me as odd that these two swords seperated by time and geographical factors, have similarly executed inlays, being sold by the same seller in a short space of time...

[Jeff Pringle]

However, he did have some credible stuff to sell:

http://cgi.ebay.com/EFTIS-UNIQUE-IN...QcmdZ ViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/EFTIS-MASTERPIE...Qcmd ZViewItem

From the perspective of someone who has studied Viking artifacts pretty closely over the last few years, I'd say 'credible' is a very generous term.

And he's putting a new one up every couple months, even if the stuff was more convincing, that would raise my eyebrow.

[Valjhun]

Originally Posted by S.Al-Anizi

Katana, you do realise that the inlay is gold, and gold doesnt react with time.

Man, I do not knwo what do you see, but to me it looks as some picasso wicca wannabe has painted thoose symbols recently. That is not gold inlaid. With that ammount of rust, the original gold inlad would be history by now.

Mark, thank you verry much for your verry interesting post!

[Valjhun]

I will not comment that seller.

However thatone looks verry verry well. Well I guest that it was real, but I think it still overpriced. That is not a 10.000$ crusader era sword, but rather a 17th century piece, slightly bigger than thoose landknechts schwerte. Nice piece, however certainly not a bargain missing its quillons.

Another thing, the crazy appraisals from that seller are taken out from Christie's auction catalogues for the year 2020...

The viking variant of the tokuba is just gorgeus! The essential piece for desert boardings. look at the price , the rightfull reserve hasn't been met thou