Marius, it is not difficult to create a textured surface on a new blade, but it is extremely difficult, perhaps impossible to create an entire blade that can pass as something from a much earlier time.
The appearance of Gavin's blade is, to my eye, representative of something that pre-dates any recent or current practices used in the false aging of a blade.
In other words it is in my opinion old, "old" in this case meaning pre-mid 19th century, and I'm being rather conservative here.
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