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Old 11th October 2014, 10:55 AM   #2
Timo Nieminen
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Looks like a modern repro/fake to me. (I have one that is similar, though with a longer blade.) The 6th term of Huang Pu Academy would have been in 1926, not 1936. By 1936, the academy had moved and had been renamed.

The genuine daggers of this type I've seen have thinner blades (if I guess this one's thickness accurately), and either have no ricasso, or a different transition from ricasso to edge. The Hanwei reproduction does have this kind of ricasso, so perhaps it is an accurate feature for some of these daggers.

This looks very much like the common repros/fakes of today - can find very similar on ebay or aliexpress. Similar patina too. So much closer to them in appearance than the originals I've seen, so I'd assume it a fake.
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