Personally I do not like reproductions but do appreciate the skill which goes into making (some of) them.
If a collector, particularly of guns, needs a certain item to complete a collection (say) of Colt Revolvers, and can not , either due to the high cost, or lack of availability of the very rare item he is missing, chooses to include a replica of that item, then there is definately a place for these. The same reasoning would follow also in the collecting of blades.
Bottom line is that it is probably personal preference rather than anything else which decides this issue.
Stuart
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