Yesterday ended this unusal Jian (?) sword by ebay, congrats for the happy winner. I think it's worth to shown here for future reference and secondly because I want to learn and know more about this sword. Could this be a Yunnan made sword?
The guard is similar to my dao:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ghlight=yunnan so my guess.
Would like to read what the experts for Chinese swords think about this sword.