Search the forum with BEIDANA, there are numerous examples posted with a lot of info. I've always wanted one. There is/was an old blacksmith in the region still making them in a variety of patterns. By the time I found him online (apparently his daughter did the online website) He was no longer making them and wasn't able to send them out from italy.
They came without sheaths/scabbards, the handle hook was for hanging in the barn, the tip loops and/.or holes were, i'm guessing' just decorations. They were apparently occasionally used as weapons when needed, much like the german bauernwehr.
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