Help Identifying Sword

McQ · 26th August 2025, 07:30 PM

Thanks for the information.

The Passau mark is in the 5 image. Cross on top of partial orb. Stantler Family.

cornelistromp · 27th August 2025, 01:39 PM

The physical Stantler examples I remember had the mark stamped into the blade, sometimes also inlaid with brass. This embossed version, where the mark is higher than the surrounding metal, is indeed shaped like the Stantler mark.
The mark was used by the family from around 1450 to 1650, so this version is possible. Have you found identical ones anywhere?

McQ · 27th August 2025, 04:34 PM

I have not. It is clearly a hand-stamped mark and not a premade-stamp as the lines that form the cross are individually struck and the partial circle/orb is more deeply stamped on one side. It looks to me like the orb was hand-stamped first and the two arms of the cross were individually stamped on top of it (note that the cross is slightly crooked to the orb). That stamp is much further down the blade that the other two.

Hope that helps.

26th August 2025, 07:30 PM	#1
McQ Member Join Date: Jul 2025 Posts: 3	Thanks for the information. The Passau mark is in the 5 image. Cross on top of partial orb. Stantler Family. Attached Images Last edited by McQ; 27th August 2025 at 04:36 PM.

27th August 2025, 01:39 PM	#2
cornelistromp Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,064	The physical Stantler examples I remember had the mark stamped into the blade, sometimes also inlaid with brass. This embossed version, where the mark is higher than the surrounding metal, is indeed shaped like the Stantler mark. The mark was used by the family from around 1450 to 1650, so this version is possible. Have you found identical ones anywhere? Last edited by cornelistromp; 27th August 2025 at 01:57 PM.

27th August 2025, 04:34 PM	#3
McQ Member Join Date: Jul 2025 Posts: 3	I have not. It is clearly a hand-stamped mark and not a premade-stamp as the lines that form the cross are individually struck and the partial circle/orb is more deeply stamped on one side. It looks to me like the orb was hand-stamped first and the two arms of the cross were individually stamped on top of it (note that the cross is slightly crooked to the orb). That stamp is much further down the blade that the other two. Hope that helps.