ok sorry about that! I was just curious!
OMG! lol scary! (it might explain why it smells bad lol-see below..)
Stuart thanks for the photos and the information
This might seem weird but I would also like to add that the leather smells awefully bad
, it smells old and the silver or metal smells very much like smelly exhaust fumes terminator2ish
like WD40 (only 100x worse up close), maybe it's whatever they used on it? or the blood of the innocents :P I'm also unsure if it has been restored where there is black stuff that keeps the blade and the handle together, I think that stuff smells too what the hell..
Under the leather belt-holder at the >front< of the sword's scabbard, it's like as if the metal has been worn down and is smooth and lost it's pattern, probably because someone was wearing it and with friction it smoothed down?
I also see that under the leather at the rear, there is some sort of reaction and the metal has turned dark/greeney, probably because they used inferior/inpurer metals at the back instead of the front.
I hope/wish this wasen't of the mid 1900s, I want something old
