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9th January 2020, 08:50 PM
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long chinese dadao execution ''sword'' ?
Hello everybody ( And Happy New Year 2020 !!!)
I picked up this long and large sword-polearm in France in a flea market more than 110cm long half for the blade, half for the handle. really sharp blade, the back side of the blade is almost 1cm thick... ( not easy to walk with in the street even wrapped with plastic bags..  )Do you think this model is chinese ? ( maybe vietnamese ? ( guard type ?) I still havent clean the blade, it seems laminated steel. Do you think that the band-rope is a later replacement ? It's not really well made so I hesitate to take it off and change it... I wonder why the handle is so long: too long for a sword, short for a polearm... an usual shape ? What do you think ? Thank you |
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9th January 2020, 09:50 PM
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It looks like a classic Chinese long sword. I cannot bring the correct name to mind at the moment, but I think it was called something like a "Horse Sword", midway between a pole-arm and a sword and theoretically for bringing down cavalry.
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9th January 2020, 09:58 PM
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Hello,
Thank you David, I'll look for that ! Do you think it's from the 20th century or earlier ? |
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9th January 2020, 11:44 PM
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I think that this item can be a trophy of the Franco-Chinese War of 1884-85. Then the French troops captured many of these weapons. The ornament, consisting of small circles with a dot in the center, is characteristic of peoples living in northern Vietnam near the border with China.
Could this item become an instrument of execution? Yes, he could. But this is definitely not its main purpose. Here is a very good comparison of similar items of the Vietnamese and Chinese types. https://www.mandarinmansion.com/arti...ietnamese-arms |
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10th January 2020, 12:13 PM
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Hello,
Thank you !! I saw vietnamese swords with these guards shape so I wondered about vietnamese origin... What do you think about the wraps-ropes, I hesitate to take it off and make a ''new old'' one with rattan ? David,for the name of this kind of sword, did you think about a Zhanmadao ''horse chopping ''sword ? Kind regards |
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10th January 2020, 11:09 PM
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