I really know more about knives than I know about swords. With that up front, to me it looks British and more like an old counterfeit rather than a modern fake. Perhaps something made in India to sell to Colonial troops. I'm basing that a lot on the "Tiffany" seems to be hot stamped while most fakes are cold stamped. If that sword is artificially aged, whoever aged it did a really good job. That is the kind of relic I would like to take out for a beer and get it to tell me where it has been.