>>63963933
Should have mentioned that these blades specifically were made by Solingen. Yes there are some very rare made-in-field sort of wootz blades for the colonial armies and officers, but it appears that Solingen was the only ESTABLISHED location that routinely did decorative lamination. I have a French sabre with a binary damask blade that is either German or a smaller French cutler, no one knows. Swedes had the Svallings of Eskilstuna (spelling for both?) who did lots and lots of their blades, but officers could also get stuff from abroad. My example is W Schmoltz, who appears to be common to Swedes, probably had a satellite shop or presence near the officers academy the same way that Schnitzer & Kirschbaum and a few other German mills seemed to have almost exclusive rights to Italian contracts.

Here are some photos from a Solingen catalog which can be found and downloaded here: https://www.deutsches-blankwaffenforum.de/Eickhorn/inhalt.html