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Originally Posted by Maj-Biffy Snodgrass
Looks very suspect to my wandering eye, the leather washers and aluminium rivets look very wrong for the region ...
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I believe the consensus is the blade is legit, the hilt a replacement. and the scabbard a modern Paiwan item. The present hilt looks like it might have been done in the original culture with the bamboo scales, but the rivets and washers are not traditional of course.