Chinese (or other country) sai/parrying weapon

[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by josh stout

Does it have a hairpin lamination? It looks like it has something. How thick is it? It certainly looks like it could be a weapon but I have not seen anything like it.

Hi Josh,

No hairpin lamination, but I too see activity within the patina.
It is 7mm thick at the base and 4cms wide.

Gavin

[josh stout]

Thanks for the info Gavin! This is certainly a strange one. It certainly seems too well made and too solid to be anything other than a weapon, but I have seen laminated heat-treated scissors. The "tonkou" brass work looks vaguely like it could have been made in Western China/Eastern Tibet. It reminds me of Yi swords. When you look closely at the lamination, does it have a "Tibetan" feel to it even if it is not hairpin?

[Miguel]

This is a fascinating thread which until now I have missed
Miguel

[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by josh stout

Thanks for the info Gavin! This is certainly a strange one. It certainly seems too well made and too solid to be anything other than a weapon, but I have seen laminated heat-treated scissors. The "tonkou" brass work looks vaguely like it could have been made in Western China/Eastern Tibet. It reminds me of Yi swords. When you look closely at the lamination, does it have a "Tibetan" feel to it even if it is not hairpin?

I am at a total loss with this one Josh, it could just as well be a "higher" end iron spatula that one had a large ring to the pommel end...one thing is for certain though, it is very well forged and very devastating in the the wrong hands.

Gavin

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Gavin Nugent

I am at a total loss with this one Josh, it could just as well be a "higher" end iron spatula that one had a large ring to the pommel end...one thing is for certain though, it is very well forged and very devastating in the the wrong hands.

Gavin

I would also say it is a weapon, based on what the fact that the Japanese and Chinese used a vast array of blunt force weapons, there afre bound to be some that are not well known, this could an example.