Thread: Two Very Fine Landsknecht Swords, Southern Germany, ca. 1490 and 1525
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Old 5th June 2011, 05:29 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by stephen wood
see this post regarding the "A" marking...

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Hi Stephen,

I beg to differ but this is a completely different form of an A mark, not of Gothic form any longer, and from a much later period (ca. 1800). Thus they cannot be compared.

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Michael
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