HELP: Maker's Marks

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Hey people. I saw a pair of dueling swords, and I wanted to see if they were replicas. There were makers' marks on them. The swords were not mine, so I couldn't take a photo.

I was looking for a good list of makers' marks to see if I could thumb through to find the ones I saw.

Suggestions?
 
Please better describe a period and type of dueling swords.

Scan Google and post pictures of similar swords.

Describe the makers marks.

Cheers

GC
 
Fair enough!

From what I can remember, they were sabers without sharpened edges. The hilts came from the top of the handle to the bottom (much like this picture)
duelingsabre.jpg


The handles were squarish wood, without choils or ribbing.

The blades had a fullers half way up the length. The full length had to be a bit over 4 ft.

One makers' mark I distinctly remember is a crown, and underneath it had what I thought was "COAC" Another was a semi circle of words that I couldn't read due to shallow stamping. I THINK it might have said Switzerland, but I can't confirm that.

That's the best I can do. Also, the pair did not have the same marks on them.
 
By the way, when I ask pretty much and more or less, consider that what you say you saw may cover sword models over half a century. I am simply trying to narrow it down a bit with your help, so I ask those two posts again. Could you say that the picture I posted might at least show a close cousin to the swords you saw? You mention "not quite" which might be pretty darn close.

More than 4ft seems rather extraordinary and another question would be whether you saw them on a wall, in hand, what exactly? How does 43" more or less sound? Did the owner call them dueling swords, or is that just an opinion?

The picture I showed is a variant of an Italian cavalry sword, of which variations lasted from the 1870s past WWI. Two of them very similar but marked differently from each other would not be surprising at all. Not replicas.

Cheers

GC
 
Thank you for your time! I really do appreciate it.

The grip does not look the same. The grip I saw was much more squared off, and made of wood stained dark brown.

The hilt shape is pretty darn close, but with a smaller derivative hole.

43 inches sounds more appropriate.

It was my opinion that they were a dueling sword set as they were identical to each other, save the strange marks, and had the same patina suggesting they'd been together.
 
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