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Originally Posted by ariel
Stainless steel= Modern.
But a cute one.
Korean weapons are not well known. There is a chapter on them in the book about exhibition in Macao. Chapters on Thai/ Burmese swords an on Philippine swords were written by the members of this Forum. All classics.
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I knew they were modern when I purchased them I just wanted examples. I still have the wooden box with a label saying "Silver Knife " in English and Korean, it is very difficult to obtain old examples as they are family heirlooms.
I have read in some article, the name of which I cant bring to mind that one of the main reasons why their weapons are not so well known is that they were systematically collected and destroyed during the Colonial period and not many survived, in fact the Korean culture was , I believe, almost destroyed as well during this period.