'Rose' Mark on the spine of Solingen blades

[Radboud]

Originally Posted by Hanger1

I have struck out with my other posted thread thus far, so maybe more people will see it again here. Thanks all.

Hello Hanger, that's a nice late 18th Century sword you have there. Difficult to attribute to any particulare nation as the markings are fairly typical for the time.

The only thing I can add is that according to M. Petard and Blondieau, the 'petite montmorency' moniker came into use in the late 19th Century and broadly applies to a type of sword that was popular in France between 1788 and 1800, based on the style of blade that looked like a smaller version of the Montmorency Dragoons' sword.

[Radboud]

In keeping with this thread I recently came across a most interesting Spanish sword. Described as a Spanish light cavalry sabre it is marked with the typical Solingen style decorations and cartouche, has a 'Rose' on the spine however it is also marked Toledo Ano 1823.

This is historically interesting because it coinsides with the restoration of Toledo as a sword manufacturing base and it shows that some of their products used imported Solingen made blades. But most interstingly, it gives us a fixed date.

[Jacenty]

I will add pictures of my spade to the discussion.
It is a French sword, originally, royal protection mod. 1780 by Louis XVI. Manufactured between 1787 and 1805. A regulation one, used by the French Guards of the Revolutionary and First Empire period of Napoleon I., infantry and cavalry officers. At the hilt the punch "king's head" - Solingen Brothers Weyersberg.