Two handed swords

cornelistromp · 21st June 2012, 04:05 PM

Hi Michael,

yes I am familiar with this literature, the only DKM forgeries now with 100% certainty to be allotted,in this case to the workshop of Anton Konrad, are a dresden reiter degen and a medieval ceremonial sword.

The Katzbalger with the beautiful chiseled pommel is defined by Uhlemann as suspicious, but here the status left with the last publication before his retirement.
Both of them I've seen and both I find convincing enough, with the science of 1968 more atypical weapons were classified as fakes.

or you may have more recent results of research which I am not aware of?
I have no further written information about the other katzbalger, do you have something available? (from the weaponry community?)

kind regards,

21st June 2012, 04:05 PM	#11
cornelistromp Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,060	Hi Michael, yes I am familiar with this literature, the only DKM forgeries now with 100% certainty to be allotted,in this case to the workshop of Anton Konrad, are a dresden reiter degen and a medieval ceremonial sword. The Katzbalger with the beautiful chiseled pommel is defined by Uhlemann as suspicious, but here the status left with the last publication before his retirement. Both of them I've seen and both I find convincing enough, with the science of 1968 more atypical weapons were classified as fakes. or you may have more recent results of research which I am not aware of? I have no further written information about the other katzbalger, do you have something available? (from the weaponry community?) kind regards, Last edited by cornelistromp; 21st June 2012 at 04:15 PM.