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Originally Posted by Tim Simmons
Chinese? sword blade made into 2 or 3 big knives in a jungle back woods settlement? Really like the scabbard.  |
Vietnamese also used Chinese characters. In the fourth photo, the inscription 用家 "Yong's family" (if read in Mandarin). In Vietnamese, 用 reads like Dụng.
I agree that this sword comes from North or North-West Vietnam (where the borders with Laos and China are located). I have seen similar scabbard in the mountaineers of Laos. They carried knives like sickle into them.