Lionshead saber authentic?

[deltaspecialforce]

Wondering if this WWII German saber is real or not. I have one that looks nothing like this that I know is real. Thoughts? Thank you

[Wagriff]

Am I seeing the swastika is backwards?

[NDShooter]

I'm seeing that also, interesting.

[Walkwolf]

Made in India perhaps ? I can't read the maker on the blade.........

[NDShooter]

Sure has some patina on it. I think you could be right steve.. but I have never handled one of these before.

[Wagriff]

It certainly Looks like Indian manufacture-or perhaps even Chinese. The casting of the guards and the detailing on them is just crude and awful. Certainly not anything that came out of a German sword factory in the early 1940's. It does, as noted have age to it, so it could well be an early post-1945 fake?

[NDShooter]

Well water and dirt and poor storage can age things quite well, as our eastern fakers know.