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Old 11th February 2013, 06:36 PM   #1
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Well Jasper,

You soon sorted this one out!!

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Old 11th February 2013, 08:00 PM   #2
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Excellently reasoned Nando! and I have always admired your tenacity at working to solve these kinds of conundrums, and while not ultimately the final solution, it was beautifully thought out. The main thing is that your reassessment of the letters provided the impetus for Jaspers solution regarding the Solingen maker noted.
I must admit that I pored over this inscription many times, but could not offer a single viable suggestion. What is most interesting is the unusual character of some of these early letters.
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Old 11th February 2013, 08:26 PM   #3
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Well Jasper, i bow to your expertize and turn the back to my silly presumption .
Since the begining of the thread that i assumed the second word would be Portugal and only the first word was the nut to crack.
So right was author José A. Faria e Silva that, when mentioning that earlier blades were used by Officers to mount on their Regulation swords, stated that they used to reach out for either XVII century blades shortened for the purpose, or XVIII examples that were a little shorter than the Regulation.
Dank u wel, Jasper
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Old 11th February 2013, 09:29 PM   #4
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Hi Fernando,

no it has nothing to do with expertise, I am habituated to old script in sword Fullers and my language and Dutch names are like German names.
see for example the e in Clemens meigen (picture), the 17th century E resembles a kind of character that looks like EC combination.

I apologize that I have not previously earlier responded to the script in your sword

VBW
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Old 14th February 2013, 12:10 PM   #5
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I thought i should attach a new image of the blade with the correct inscription.
Also a couple other pictures of the screwable pommel button and the scabbard straight ending point, details that are typically seen in Portuguese swords.

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