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Originally Posted by ausjulius
it is a typical machete sword from mexico.
this style is quite common , recently ive seen quite alot of older versions being sold on ebay..
typicaly the blade has a pointed tip and is sharp for about 20cm along the back of the edge, the swords come in sheaths in the style of a machete not in a typical sword sheath.
yours would have to be dated as a product of the last 70 years.. older ones are not normaly saying mad in mexico..and the etching it ushaly of a different style
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Yes, it is a typical machete from México. The blade very probably came from a common machete known as "acapulqueño" (from the port of Acapulco, on the State of Guerrero coast), even from a Collins machete like the one shown above. Those blades are remounted like kronckew´s, in the old mexican fashion. A tourist item, since the old fighting machetes mounted like this were slender. And not expensive. The tip of the original machete is just like this, and not pointed. It is used traditionally on the sugar cane cutting labour. The design originally is not mexican. It was adopted because it permits a long life throught continous re-sharpening, and the balance helps in cutting several sugar canes with one stroke. I don´t think the mounting has any silver, though the real old mountings used to have it. Those are naive style horses. We don´t have llamas.
Regards
Gonzalo