Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
The weapons shop would do this as a maintenance plan when officers surrendered their blades for work or if the swords were held by stores and issued on requirement...they held a stock. There was a man that did the maintenance of swords and would remove rust or corrosion, straighten blades and undent scabbards... He of course didn't care about acid etch or finery. Just do the job. Possible it was that far back.
Thank you for that bit of information. Now that is something I didn't know and given the age of the sword, that's entirely possible.