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Yes I had found that and together with the other helpful feedback now have a much better understanding. I'll be browsing along this forum with very interesting information and try to be a good caretaker of this sword for the next generation. Thanks everyone! Peter

Fascinating! My father spent quite some time back then to find out more, but without internet. I faintly remember he couldn't identify for certain who the maker was. Really appreciate the valuable feedback from everyone - thanks! If I may ask one more thing: what is the skin on the handle - is that shark skin? Thanks, Peter PS Earlier I stated there wasn't a pattern to be seen on the blade and deleted that text because later I could see it but it's pretty faint (not visible on the pictures).

Thanks to all for the very helpful information. Now the handle is removed successfully, here is the signature. Hope this can give more info about the maker?

Hello, I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. Twenty years ago I inherited this sword from my father. He then had owned it for decades. I have no intention to sell it but would be very interested in knowing more about this sword (type, age, etc.) - currently I'm a total newbie in this area. Fortunately I found the document to take care of these swords on the forum already and that's already very useful. So far I haven't dared to do anything to it to avoid messing it up. If anyone could help with more information about this sword I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Peter