Good feeling?

[Mark]

Not a red-painted blade, but this poor fellow had a gloppy coating of red paint on the scabbard & handle, clearly applied recently, as it slopped over onto the fittings. It is a Shan style dha, from eastern Burma or northern Thailand.

Here is another one (Kachin this time, from Northern Burma), where the red might have been original.


No idea what the red signifies, though.