Mexican Presentation Sword?

[celtan]

Naive horses? And you can ID them by appearance?


I wonder how the racy, world-savvy type then look. Red Horse-shoes with tall heels?



Just Kidding Gonzalo, couldn't help myself.

Interesting the note on the reasons behind the rounded blade...

Best regards & Saludos.



Manolo

Originally Posted by Gonzalo G

Yes, it is a typical machete from México. The blade very probably came from a common machete known as "acapulqueño" (from the port of Acapulco, on the State of Guerrero coast), even from a Collins machete like the one shown above. Those blades are remounted like kronckew´s, in the old mexican fashion. A tourist item, since the old fighting machetes mounted like this were slender. And not expensive. The tip of the original machete is just like this, and not pointed. It is used traditionally on the sugar cane cutting labour. The design originally is not mexican. It was adopted because it permits a long life throught continous re-sharpening, and the balance helps in cutting several sugar canes with one stroke. I don´t think the mounting has any silver, though the real old mountings used to have it. Those are naive style horses. We don´t have llamas.
Regards

Gonzalo