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Solingen, Germany, Weyersburg, Kirschbaum sword

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Is there a simple way to date a sword marked Weyersburg, Kirschbaum, Solingen on the blade? I haven't been able to find any other markings as to date or type of steel. It's handle is 6" or so long and the blade is 32" long inside a metal sheath. I don't have a picture available because it belongs to a friend. He found it hidden in a trailer he bought so I know nothing about it's history. Thanks, S1
 
Some time after the early 1880s. Without pictures, there is little more that can be said. Both the Weyersburg and Kirschbaum families go back some centuries in the blade trades but were joined as a partnership in 1883.

Have your friend register and share pictures.

Cheers

GC
 
Horseclover-Bot with the answer. Pretty sure you should be working at the Smithsonian.
 
Thanks but the basic information could be found pretty easily.
http://www.wkc-solingen.de/newshop/history.html

Without pictures, it is a bit like playing blind man's bluff or twenty questions. Both, discussions/games I (for one) tire of pretty quickly. I could hold up my thumb and ask which one :) without a picture. There would be a 50/50 chance for anyone guessing. For the sword of this topic, most likely sold some time after the partnership began.

Cheers

GC; not exactly an authority about anything
 
Perhaps, but the willingness and ability to scour history's records and present the findings, however trifling or grandiose the subject, is a thing I admire.
 
[video=youtube;wcW-pZBHwiM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW-pZBHwiM[/video]
 
So if I said that Solingen sword doesn't even have a hand-polished tsuka, and that its nagako was backwards, you would pretty much shitodome?
 
Mecha said:
So if I said that Solingen sword doesn't even have a hand-polished tsuka, and that its nagako was backwards, you would pretty much shitodome?
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No way to tell without seeing a picture of it.

Cheers

GC
 
Thanks for the info. That link might prove useful if I can narrow the handle down. Thank you again.
 
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