Posts: 163 Location: Germany
Sat 13 Sep, 2014 12:27 pm
I agree it looks off. But not in a bad way, rather the opposite.
at least to me the long edge - right side on the picture - doesn't look like it has been ground down to form the flamed form (an example of a blade flamed in that way would be
this sword) but rather like it's wavy/flamed along the edge rather than along the flat of the blade which gives it a bit of a flamed appearance on the flat as well.
The back-edge not so much, but the front reminds me a bit of
this piece from the
wallace collection - which incidentally shows much better what I mean.
That might just be down to the photo of this particular basket-hilt though.