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					Originally Posted by Battara
					
				 
				Didn't know theses were still in production.  How does one tell the difference? 
			
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 This is from a series of manufacturing photos of the traditional methods they still use to hand make these swords, this is on the factory floor of a famous workshop in Yunnan in 1988.
Gav