Antique Sword Garage Sale Find, Makers Mark Identification? US or Foreign?

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For the last 3 months, I have been digging in a private residence that has produced some great finds. Itā€™s occupied almost every Saturday for the past 3 months so regular yard sale trips have been out on hold.

Since we canā€™t go there every weekend, last Saturday was spent around my house with a few community sales on my list. One happened to be in a very old part of town and as luck would have it, I found a sale that was on a double size lot and stilll in the family that purchased it almost 100 years ago.

I was given free rein to dig around the garage and outbuildings which I happily did which brings me to my confusing find

I happened to stumble onto a large footlocker that was absolutely stuffed with military stuff like helmets, bayonets and knives. One of those blades happened to be a short sword.

My knowledge on swords is limited and Im absolutely lost as to what this might be. I found some civil war swords on my girlfriends family property last summer but this is nothing like those.

Thereā€™s no hilt or hand guard and it seems very short. The only markings I spotted were (2) Jā€˜s on the tang and the letter ā€Iā€ or 1 on the reverse. Overall it measures 26 1/4ā€ with and blade length of 21 1/2ā€.

Google lens havenā€™t produced many results so if any resident sword experts could chime in, it would really help identify this thing.
 

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Yatagan bayonet? It really is short sword sized. This is just a quick geus. I didn't look seriously.. yet
 

I don't know anything about swords, but that sure looks like a fun haul of blades!
Oh yes, it was quite thrilling. Itā€™s always fun to attempt to lift 5 gallons buckets of knives from over your head while standing on a questionable perch that could fail at any second.

Iā€™ll probably end up with more in the coming weeks when I have time to return and search deeper.
 

Everything I know about swords I learned playing tabletop roleplaying games. šŸ˜
Google lens havenā€™t produced many results so if any resident sword experts could chime in, it would really help identify this thing.
Is it possible the lack of hilt is obfuscating identification/recognition?

ICBW, but I thought I discerned a camber/curve.
Maybe try searching short sabre or similar... (?)
 

Thatā€™s definitely it minus any sort of handle or lock device. Probably not worth much but at least I have a direction to start with on those J initials on the tang.

Thank you for the profile ID. With the other bayonets I found with it, I should have guessed military but it really looked like a sword.
 

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