Nice sword !
The blade seems clearly earlier than the hilt.
It reminds me a pallash sword I have with an early european blade with a Passau wolf mounted on a 19th-20th nielled hilt and scabbard
( an old post, I will write the link)
The hilt work ( with niello on the circle ? ) and the shape make me think about Russian origin,
the curved/bent end of hilt remind me tatar swords,
just change the crescent guard with crossguard...
or maybe hungarian origin, a ceremonial/ gala sword
sadly without scabbard for see all craftmen work...
for the ''horns'' at the tips, it reminds me a too a ram but maybe a dragon shape with horns ( like William Blake's Red Great Dragon..)
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