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Aaron Justice
Location: Southern California Joined: 21 Aug 2003
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exactly how can you tell when an MRL blade is made by Del Tin Fulvio? I'm asking because someone on another forum (a Lord of the Rings based forum) has contacted me about an old sword he has and wanted to know if it was a Del Tin blade or not. I thought I heard that DT blades had a wolf or some other stamp design on them, along with a Museum Replicas stamp as opposed to a Windlass stamp (because Windlass didn't make the blade. Duh.) I could be wrong so that's why I am asking.
How can there be a perfect sword when PEOPLE come in all shapes and sizes too?
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Nathan Robinson
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Early Del Tin blades were marked with a stylized "Running Wolf" mark such as this:
Later stuff has the blade stamped "Del Tin" in small writing.
Some of the MRL / Del Tin collaborations were not marked with anything and the only way to verify if it is a Del Tin blade is to do some product research on that particular model. Additionally, the Del Tin blades often have a more "gray" appearance than the more mirror-polished Windlass blades.
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Scott Byler
Location: New Mexico Joined: 20 Aug 2003
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Speaking from limited experience, having only handled/owned a couple of Del Tins, I'd say if the blade is pretty much free of hammer ripples it might be more likely a Del Tin. I know that the Del Tins I had were nice and flat and most all but one of the MRL/Windlass things had a fair abundance of those ripples left in there. The exception being the little medieval shortsword, which was nice and clean. This is all general, and just from my experience, ofcourse. 
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David Wilson
Location: In a van down by the river Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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My MRL/DT Falcata has both the Del Tin "Shield" on one side and "Made in Italy" stamped on the other....
David K. Wilson, Jr.
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Glen A Cleeton
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| David Wilson wrote: | | My MRL/DT Falcata has both the Del Tin "Shield" on one side and "Made in Italy" stamped on the other.... |
Bingo!
Sans any marking, this is a dead giveaway on the older stuff. Windlass has been doing a better job on finishing of late but newer models are fairly easily identified.
I'd love to see a catalog listing of an MRL/Del Tin Danish War Sword.
I picked up a piece through Craig Johnson and his thoughts ran to that identification. A light XVa with a small fluted globe pommel.
Cheers
GC
Edited because I meant to quote Scott, re: the ripple effect ?8•)
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