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TVV 18th March 2009 12:21 AM

What Is It?
 
Ended yesterday on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=220375220479

The blade seems to be European, possibly French. The hilt with those brass tacks has an African feel to me. But what is it really?

broadaxe 18th March 2009 12:56 AM

I think it is an altered sword-cane. Well, just the sword minus the cane. In my part of the world (the Middle East) it was quite popular to make sword-canes out of surplus French Epees, after WWI to WWII.


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