Lew, I like that one you traded to Artzi. Pretty nice decoration, and the blade is marked. Bans were very much working blades, so they tend to be pretty basic, with decoration seeming to vary most on the scabbards--nothing, or some metal pinned on as in this example, or some little stones (as on your demon-headed one).
Frankly, I am most attracted most to utilitarian weapons.
|