George & Dale:
I do appreciate your opinions and hope others will voice theirs. Please understand I am not
trying to defend the originality of this sword. I posted it and have stated that I honestly don't know. I suppose I could have quietly re-bladed it and no one would have been the wiser except me and my concience. BTW: Others have convinced me that the fittings are not Dachau and that my initial impression was in error.
Others have privately stated that they think it could by a one/off example made specifically as an award for someone with a PDL connection. If so they would have gotten the parts elsewhere since the didn't make this style of sword and only done the assembly and etching in house.
It is not currently nor will it be up for sale as others have asked.
We may never know the total story here but none the less it makes a drop dead display in my den!
Jim
