Schiavona real or fake? 🧐

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Originally Posted by Triarii

The stand out is the blade markings - they are very crisp for something supposedly done up to c.375 years ago. The'ye also very poorly aligned - even the indistinct ones often seen are carefully placed. Finally they seem to made up of multile punches. The anchor, often seen at the end of the fuller on possibly German swords, is one quality stamp rather then made up from bits.

You are right!
It was offered to me when i posted it, and those markings and pomel looked fake as f. But i was virgin in schiavonas then, so i needed to ask if someone knows about it, but few days later i held it in my hands it was obvious fake.

Problem is i thought maybe it is a local Dalmatian made one and cleaned very well, mybe.
But in Dalmatia they made baskets only, and blades very rarely, and thos are of high quality.

From then till now thru my hands pased around 50-60 schiavonas, and this one was only fake that i encountered.

Unfortunately, fakes are on market, but this kind of a fake isnt problem, you can tell even with little knowledge on schiavonas i had then, but there are very detailed fakes coming from hungary, poland, slovenia, chech republic, from good blacksmithsthat are problem when you buy online and cant hold it in your hands.

I gave up online buys, and auctions where i cant hold it first in my hands, after buying some fakes i learned my lessons.