Mexican Presentation Sword?

Atlantia · 8th November 2008, 03:33 AM

LOL, you do find the goodies!
Why when I look on ebay do I never see any good deals?
This is an interesting piece for sure.
I have absolutely no idea about this one, but it is well cute!
I find myself wondering if the silvering is original?
Where I live there is a long established chrome plating works close by, and it's bizarre the amount of things that I've seen over the years that are thickly coated with chrome. Fire axes, swords, daggers, loads of bayonets, seems like it was the thing to do in the 70s and 80s.
Your mexican sword looks like its had a silver dip on all the metal parts?
I might be showing my ignorancce of Mexican parade swords here of course.
And the odd bolo blade totally threw me!
Hopefully some of our members a little more geographically close to that area will be able to tell the whole backstory on this one as I for one will also be very interested to learn more about it!

8th November 2008, 03:33 AM	#2
Atlantia Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: The Sharp end Posts: 2,928	LOL, you do find the goodies! Why when I look on ebay do I never see any good deals? This is an interesting piece for sure. I have absolutely no idea about this one, but it is well cute! I find myself wondering if the silvering is original? Where I live there is a long established chrome plating works close by, and it's bizarre the amount of things that I've seen over the years that are thickly coated with chrome. Fire axes, swords, daggers, loads of bayonets, seems like it was the thing to do in the 70s and 80s. Your mexican sword looks like its had a silver dip on all the metal parts? I might be showing my ignorancce of Mexican parade swords here of course. And the odd bolo blade totally threw me! Hopefully some of our members a little more geographically close to that area will be able to tell the whole backstory on this one as I for one will also be very interested to learn more about it!