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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
The note on the dates on the heavy cavalry swords:
On underside of the disc: 2D
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The top is of course the unit
Next is the year of issue
Next the rack or issue number
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Thank you for those details Jim, markings on these swords are still so much of a mystery with many regiments doing their own thing. I hadn’t realised that in some instances dates had been positively identified. Of course in later years they become more uniform and common place, but in this era so much still appears to have been down to the individual regiment.
Re the Austrian 1769, I only remember the model because the date is, ironically, transposed in the 1796.
