I have seen them both ways comming from the former wearers itself or out of their families.
Just let them be as they are! In my opinion it is nothing concerned to any "agreement" or how it "should be" but to experience. And experience says to me IN THE PERIOD they were PRODUCED BOTH WAYS.
Regards,

wotan, gd.c-b#105

"Never look for sqare eggs" as a late owner of an original FHH-dagger used to say.