Elizabeth, although I cannot see the whole item I suspect this is a recent made for "art"????? trade object. Stained maybe even smoked, weak patchy patination. Rather like this so called Lube axe I was very recently daft enough to waste £75 on ouch, from an ebay seller beware those with too much of the same stuff!!! Never too wise to balls up
i tell myself that obects in a certain light are easy to be fooled by but I really should have known better
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