Wilkinson Tulwar

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Originally Posted by thinreadline

The Manton name was bought and used by a firm in Birmingham sometime in the late 1980s . They produced a whole range of edged weapons with spurious markings , I believe the weapons themselves were mostly manufactured in India .

In that last era of the firm, I believe that's true of many Wilkinson sword blades as well.

When the firm shut down thousands blades, both completed, faulty, pattern cubboard & unfinished hit the market at very cheap prices, both officially by Wilkinsons & unofficially by all the blokes getting made redundant who worked there who filled there car boots with them. {Which due to circumstance's the management ignored.}

I suspect this is an unfinished blade from there store rooms re hilted for re sale by someone not even competent enough to put an apparently original sharp edge on it.

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Is this a tulwar blade ?

Could it be a Sappeurs blade ?

Best regards,
Willem

[archer]

This is one of those times when a little bit of knowledge can be painful.
thanks to all hopefully lesson learned we'll see.
steve

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Originally Posted by archer

This is one of those times when a little bit of knowledge can be painful.
thanks to all hopefully lesson learned we'll see.
steve

Hi Steve,
An old collector friend of mine, now sadly passed on, once said to me that "if it does not look right, then it probably isn't".
A very useful statement to remember, but then there are times, and I guess we have all had them, that we make mistakes, but hopefully we learn from them................
Stu

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Originally Posted by archer

This is one of those times when a little bit of knowledge can be painful.
thanks to all hopefully lesson learned we'll see.
steve

Thank you, Its nice when the messenger doesn't get shot...

[archer]

Spiral,
Thanks again for the heads up it's on it's way back now and I'm not sure at all that I would have picked up on it. Steve

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signed for delivery I trust?