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Old 29th November 2007, 04:01 PM   #5
josh stout
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Originally Posted by freebooter
An excavated Korean piece perhaps......
Korean would be a good guess, but I think the tang would be more angled like a Japanese piece, and have a hole for a peg rather than a peened end. Other than that, the triangular shape to the tang and the general look of the blade could easily suggest Korean.

Does anybody know of Korean examples with a peened tang?
Josh
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