Thanks for the comments Jim. My wife saw me cleaning the sword, using all of my above listed precautions and stated "I'm finally glad to see you are being careful with those things;" before she saw the "poison blade," inscription which caused another conversation.
I seem to remember, either a Corsican, Spanish, or Moroccan, etc., dagger with holes in the center of the blade where a poison paste would be inserted(or at least I think so), so I wasn't taking any chances.
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