Hi Derek,
My reference to the heads was more to the lower guard/upper scabbard ones.
I could be wrong & hope I am but for the last 5 years at least many original ethnographic pieces have been bought & shipped into China.
Sadly yes they have upped their game.. just as they have in every other manufacturing industry.
I should say Ive never owned a Kastane, {real or not.} Im just saying how it appears to me.
The work doesn't accurately resemble any presentation kukri I can think of, but the flower design & tendrils does look like some lotus,rhodenron & tendril seen on some kukri... but Id say not truly the same.
Hopefully either way someone knows exactly what this is.
Is the blade distally tapered or same diameter till near the tip?
Spiral
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