Old Chinese Cane sword

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alfanator
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Old Chinese Cane sword

Post by alfanator » Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:26 am

Picked this up in Xian couple of weeks ago along with several others. This is the one that i find most interesting.

Some pictures of the scabbard. It has some worm holes, is split and warped. It was wrapped in some gauze and tape when i got it. Inside is chisled to fit the blade with rustic steel tip and throat.
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Re: Old Chinese Cane sword

Post by alfanator » Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:31 am

Detail of the throat piece, handle and tang.

The throat piece of the scabbard step fits into the throat piece on the handle.

Notice there is a notch on the blade, there used to be a spring latch that was riveted in there to keep the sword in the scabbard till the button on the scabbard throat piece was pressed to unlock the blade.
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Re: Old Chinese Cane sword

Post by alfanator » Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:39 am

Nice deep black brown rust on tang with a punched retantion hole.

Could see some laminar structure on the ridge of the blade.

Handles like a single hand jian and blade is shaped like an early Tang style dao.

Welcome any info or comments.

OAL in scabbard 122cm
OAL out of scabbard 88cm
Blade 72cm
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