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4th April 2020, 09:24 PM
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Chinese Dao
I just picked up this Chinese dao; I would guess the vintage to be between WW1 and WW2. What is really exciting to me is that it came with the original scabbard.
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4th April 2020, 11:04 PM
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Nice one.
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5th April 2020, 01:42 AM
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Thanks, it is the only one that I have with a scabbard.
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5th April 2020, 07:38 AM
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Very nice!
and how to carry it. |
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5th April 2020, 09:10 AM
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The fourth pic from the top shows some inscriptions.
The upper on “191..” . May it be part of the date “ 191(0...9)”? The lower on hieroglyphs . Perhaps RenRen can decipher them. |
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5th April 2020, 03:48 PM
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Photo is turned upside down. I see the numbers "151" and the family character 謝 Xie (means "Gratitude"). The arsenals built by Europeans in China and Japan sometimes continued to use European numbers for marking.
I also really liked the scabbard. I think the buttons can tell you something about production time. |
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