chinese dao with two blades for comments

Timo Nieminen · 7th April 2013, 06:43 AM

I'd say modern. The style of fittings and grip, and blade are consistent with modern Chinese fakes, and I have never seen a genuine twin dao in this style. (I have seen 2 published examples in a book riddled with errors, obvious fakes listed as genuine, and major misidentifications, but given the overall quality of the source, I'm not willing to consider those "genuine".) In addition, I've seen plenty of fakes of this type on ebay. Unless there is a very good reason to think this is genuine, I'd call it a modern fantasy sword or a fake antique, depending on how the seller represented it.

There are historical example of twin dao, but they're mirror-image twins in the one scabbard.

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7th April 2013, 06:43 AM	#3
Timo Nieminen Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 422	I'd say modern. The style of fittings and grip, and blade are consistent with modern Chinese fakes, and I have never seen a genuine twin dao in this style. (I have seen 2 published examples in a book riddled with errors, obvious fakes listed as genuine, and major misidentifications, but given the overall quality of the source, I'm not willing to consider those "genuine".) In addition, I've seen plenty of fakes of this type on ebay. Unless there is a very good reason to think this is genuine, I'd call it a modern fantasy sword or a fake antique, depending on how the seller represented it. There are historical example of twin dao, but they're mirror-image twins in the one scabbard.