I began a new thread several months ago when I posted images of a pole arm called "guandao".
Your pole arm somewhat resembles both the knife in this thread and the guandao post of early October.
I think it's a form that, being flamboyant, is apt to be copied and imitated.
Yours appears to be fairly late, i.e. twentieth century. The pole is held by the socket-grip. Mine bears a tang, and has the crust of age all over.
The knife shown in this thread could possibly be from South East Asia somewhere, but, as it came from a warehouse in Tianjin, who knows?
I am also hoping to get something more concrete that can lead to a confident attribution.
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