Hi, i found this sword a couple of years ago at my Great grandfathers attic, I was 12 years then and had forgot about it. This week i found it again :D and now i would like to know if their is anybody of you who can tell me a little more about wat type of sword this is and how old it could be?

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Sorry for the bad pics, but hopefully someone can identify what it is :\

Thanks for the help!

Would also welcome any suggestions how to clean away all the rust in the best way possible.

Mathias,
It is called a hunting sword. The following is from George Neumann's Swords and Blades of the American Revolution: "The hunting sword was a short civilian arm originally used as a supplementary weapon during hunting. By the time of the American Revolution many of them had been slenderized and refined for wear by gentlemen as informal town swords." I cannot tell from the pictures what the date or country of origin might be for your sword. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will be able to provide you with more information. Hunting swords of that type have been used frome the 1600s through the early 1900s (anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong).

Jonathan

P.S. Are there any marks on the blade that might tell us who the maker is or where it is from?

Thanks for the input :D After exameing the blade more carfully looking for marks i found the inscription: Osborn& Gun, there is also a B a bit after Gun, but it is hard to se as the whole sentence is disapering into the crossguard.

Another name for it is a Cuttoe, which is an English garbling of the French word for knife, Couteau

If what is stamped on the blade is the remains of Osborne & Gunby, then the blade is British and was probably made sometime between 1806 and 1820 (per Bezdek's Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland).

Thanks for all the help guys, i really appreciate it. Feels a bit more fun to own this piece now that i know it´s history.

Once again, Thanks!

Best wishes/ Mathias