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Shaun Harper
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Werner Stiegler
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The scabbard looks chinese. You'd usually see that style of mountings on a chinese scabbard anyway.
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Anders Backlund
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It does look like Chinese dao - a yanmaodao/good quill saber? Not sure. Definitely a Chinese-inspired asian design, though.
Interesting find.
The sword is an ode to the strife of mankind.
"This doesn't look easy... but I bet it is!"
-Homer Simpson.
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Timo Nieminen
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| Posted: Mon 15 Mar, 2010 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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It's Chinese (or at least Chinese-style).
Would most likely have had a round guard, wooden grip (possibly wrapped in cord, possibly fishskin),with a tubuluar rivet through the hole in the tang (or possibly just a hole through the grip at this point - this is to attach a cord or tassel), with the end of the tang peened at the pommel. The two suspension points on the scabbard are used to suspend the scabbard at the left side. A military carry was often with the grip to the rear, to avoid getting in the way of the bow and bowcase.
Could be 19th c., possibly Qing military. Could be a more recent tourist replica. If it's a good blade - good edge geometry, hard steel, distal taper - then it isn't likely to be a cheap tourist piece (or a crappy military sword). There were good early 20th century replicas as well as cheap nasty ones. Since this has plain steel fittings, it's likely a functional piece if it has a good blade.
The family story could easily be true, if the Middle East is taken to extend to Burma. From the photos, it's old enough.
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