An interesting old short sword blade...any ideas?

[katana]

This just finished on eBay. Thought it may be African, cental 'rib; is 1/4" (approx, 7mm) blade 21" rat tail tang 5". There is two rows of dots along the centre.

Too much for a 'speclative' bid, but have my suspicions that it could be worth more than the final bid :shrug:

Would anyone have any ideas as to origin ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=120141749585&rd=1&rd=1

[Tim Simmons]

Another Yaka blade ;)

[RomaRana]

Looks very much like an east african spear head with a shovel profile But it has no socket for the haft. Strange item.

[katana]

I think I have just found a possibility, Freddy has just started a thread on Yaka swords, one he shows has all the 'design elements' of the posted blade

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4934

Now thats synchronicity :D


Ah...didn't see the other postings :o

[Tim Simmons]

Looks like one of these to me.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/jamhappy/NNNN020.jpg

[Flavio]

Yeah, I'm with Tim, clearly a Yaka blade

ah, the price is tooo high!!!!!!! :rolleyes: