This sword belongs to a friend of mine he bought it at a yard sale, has had it for some time, has had it looked at by a sword person, made before WW 1 and had new furniture in WW 2 has writing on both sides under the handle. Some genies put his drivers license number on the blade, so we decided being the genies that I am could not make it any worse than it was, got the numbers off, think it was some what successful it blended well, cleaned the whole blade with simichrome think only an expert sword person may see it, some times i think the human race is over rated. Deane