Help with ID on a Solingen 'Tree' mark

[werecow]

Lovely sword. One of these is very high on the wish list. On Walloon swords the SAHAGVM is also combined with a Wolf of Passau but of course there's only a single fuller.

Can't be much help with the tree, though... Is there such a thing as a visual search engine for makers marks?

[Radboud]

Originally Posted by werecow

Is there such a thing as a visual search engine for makers marks?

I've tried using Google image search, but it doesn't return a lot of results. My guess is that there just aren't enough people posting them.

[werecow]

Originally Posted by Radboud

I've tried using Google image search, but it doesn't return a lot of results. My guess is that there just aren't enough people posting them.

Yeah, I tried that as well without luck. But a dedicated database of blade marks with a specialized image matching algorithm might yield better results. Maybe one day I'll find some time to invest in making something like that (although I'd need a database of maker's marks, which is presumably non-trivial to acquire).