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Old 10th February 2023, 08:18 AM   #6
milandro
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the torcar is essentially a needle , a tube with a point, it has to be made that way because it is left in situ to deflate the stomach until it has (I studied agricultural science and have handled a couple of these) , so no, this isn't one.


Also the supposed " Kanji" ( in Japan they use 3 different writing system and if anything this looks like katakana , the other one being hiragana ) isn't not.

Il looks like a 01

I concur with a swagger stick of some sort with a blade, probably anglo-indian and I don't think it is very old.

These are often reproduced to look like weapons made in the raj period but they aren't.

We see some in the NL but because the trade of concealed blades is forbidden in the NL not as many as elsewhere.

they look like this
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