Now, THESE images are of a double kiem (song kiem) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (I took the photos myself). Again, double fullers, but they are so pronounced as to almost completely take up the blade. If you look closely at the ricasso of your weapon, you'll see that stock was removed from the ricasso forward, that is, the fullers run completely off the blade.
Ordinarily, I'd say this is a case of perspective, as in, I see two very wide fullers, where you see the median ridge. However, because double fullers are SO prevalent on kiem, I think it's more correct to think of this as very exaggerrated fullering.
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