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Originally Posted by tom hyle

Agreed. It's quite possible the blade is not steel; will a magnet stick to it? It looks like a weak cast metal used on many decorator "Japanese" swords.

Thank you all for your information. I guess the joke's on me.
All of my other swords were attracted to a magnet, puting the lie to the old myth that a magnet wouldn't stick to stainless so it never occured to me to try it even though I was suspicious of the brightness of the blade. Sure enough <smacks forehead> it is about as attracted to a magnet as a frog of the amphibous persuasion. Now it can join my "Ninja Sword Set" in hiding.

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