Her we go with this eternal cliché about collecting (old) weapons being a target to criticism
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If our behaviour towards ancient weapons is suficiently inoquous, why can not this be compared to automobiles or motobikes, for example ? you can also get ran down and killed by one of those; or even the sky may fall over you, as Axterix and his mates were afraid; then the sky would be a weapon ... at least for the Gauloise
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I do think it is not a question whether a determined device is historicaly deadly, but a question of emotional load. Like Lew says, weapons used by contemporaneous sects do not qualify for collectible interest, as their horrendous insignia is much too present in our minds to gain a degree of cultivation that overcomes such trauma.
I do not think that Ariel will read this humble aproach to a pertinent post, as most probably i am included in his ignore list, but amazingly this topic was the only way to take him to post in this section of the Forum
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But picking on his words, maybe (maybe) he doesn't know that when i tried to sell a nazy sword in the Swap Forum, i was adverted by the moderators that some members 'constrained' about my being allowed to do so
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Very difficult to please Greeks and Trojans.
Fernando