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Old 5th April 2019, 08:12 PM   #1
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Default Chinese Dadao in need of translation

While I was in Baltimore, I picked up a set of 3 Dadao from a dealer; each one is unique in its own way. I started cleaning one of them and to my surprise, I noticed some Chinese characters on the blade; on the other side of the sword where some drawings that are unrecognizable.
Can anyone translate these characters?
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Old 8th April 2019, 11:47 PM   #2
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I am ready to try to translate. But now the characters are very poorly visible. It is necessary to make detailed photos.
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Old 9th April 2019, 03:18 AM   #3
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Thank you. The images on the blade are very faint and because of having to reduce the size of the pictures for this forum, this is the best I can do here. Can I send them to you in a private email and thus I can enlarge the pictures?
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Yes of course. See personal message.
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Old 9th April 2019, 06:02 PM   #5
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There is a result But it is not perfect.
The first character is read very difficult. Maybe it's 浱 chún "the water side".
Then the whole inscription 浱家河民一号 chúnjiā hémín yīhào
is translated as "the family of the water side, the people of the river, the first number."
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Thank you very Much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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