After shooting my mouth off about this sword (based on the photographic images), I finally got to look at it on Helmut Weitze's table at the MAX (I don't know if he owns it, or is fronting it for someone else)- but guess what! All my opinions seem to be validated.
There are numerable questionable features on this sword - and they need to be explained. So far from my indulgence in "trashing the treasures of this hobby" - as I was so glibly dismissed by another worthy peer - I think that we need to look more closely at them; because once one faked up item is accepted, then it becomes so much easier to work more faked up pieces through the system. I stand by my original comments - things are not right with this sword.
