What an aesthetic issue you are addressing, Michl
I would say that this is a magnificent sword, with an intrinsic value, admittedly greater than tat of a takouba.
But in photogenic terms i guess that we have already seen in tis forum, mainly posted by you but not only, specimens more appealing, as more fit to make the cliche of a (forum) logo.
This without forgetting that the takouba depicted in the forum is rather photogenic, apart from its relative intrisic value, other than cultural.
We must not forget that (first), our mother forum has been originaly developed for an Ethnographic horizon and (second but not less important), the forum owner loves takoubas
; not that he doesn't like Vicking swords, though
A different approach would be that, if our sub-forums could also show their 'sub-logo', the boys from the keris Warung could select a traditional example of their taste and we, the European cousins, could choose an elegant Katzbalger, a Vicking spatha, or the like.
But mind you, not (necessarily) the nicest valuable specimen, but the more 'logo-ish' one.
Yours faithfuly