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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
Good note Glen!
As this is an eagle head, and Im deferring to you as you know these better than anyone else, would these be an American example using British (obviously) blade? If I recall Gill and Osborn used specific blade marks for blades to America but not aware of Wooley (this in Mowbray, not handy at moment).
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I don't know who furbished that sabre. I can only place it in time by the style and Mowbray likes these backstrap examples as post 1818, but we have the 'absolute' of those wd&c marks as from 1803-1806. That's a pretty narrow window. That blade is cast steel but there is no mark indicating that.
I know nothing of trade blades being specifically marked as such. There is a Thillman note about a particular French Fourbisshier and ACW officers swords but there is nothing I've read on 18th or early century swords. I can though spot surplus Napoleonic era blades in use as late as the 1850s.
Cheers
GC