Hello Battara!
My psychiatrist says I am "fairly" normal.
At least i am not the only one who saw the similarity, If the steel blade was replaced with a brass one and the hilt drilled with holes and glass insewrts put in, his seems plausable because the blade seems of differt brass type for lack of better words. If the case it whould make a very attractive cheap tourist piece with minimum work required to 'convert' it.
Mark...