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ariel · 5th December 2005, 07:53 PM

I join the above gentlemen.
The appeal of antiques comes in large part from "being there". The old blades were made for usage at the battlefield and many examples in our collections likely did their bloody duty.
The Victorian replicas of the old European swords, the Qajari Revival swords, the 20th century Caucasian kindjals mass-produced by Mudunov, Omarov etc, the new Rajastani "damascus", etc, etc, are only qualitatively different from the modern Chinese e-bay junk: although of unquestionably better workmanship, they were made to be a souvenir, a decoration, a toy; consequently they have no past behind them and no future but hanging on the wall.
Do not invest into modern Japanese swords, because 200 years down the road they will be worth their weight in....iron

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5th December 2005, 07:53 PM	#4
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	I join the above gentlemen. The appeal of antiques comes in large part from "being there". The old blades were made for usage at the battlefield and many examples in our collections likely did their bloody duty. The Victorian replicas of the old European swords, the Qajari Revival swords, the 20th century Caucasian kindjals mass-produced by Mudunov, Omarov etc, the new Rajastani "damascus", etc, etc, are only qualitatively different from the modern Chinese e-bay junk: although of unquestionably better workmanship, they were made to be a souvenir, a decoration, a toy; consequently they have no past behind them and no future but hanging on the wall. Do not invest into modern Japanese swords, because 200 years down the road they will be worth their weight in....iron .