Thanks Jim.
Outstanding points and references Jim, nice to see some expression of interest and dissemination of information about the lesser known items.
Your notes as usual are well thought out, explained clearly and backed with reference, thank you.
It certainly is unfortunate that with Korea and many other nations throughout time, that they suffered these losses at the hands of others and were concerned in other cultures their own hands.
I think I can safely say as you indicated there is profound Chinese influence in this piece with regards to the scabbard decoration, one that I have seen go back a couple of hundred years.
I certainly see the Korean factor present with the "sunburst" layers to the quatrefoil guard and the double "sunburst" layers to the pommel.
However, I cannot offer much at all on this piece other than the images and simple comparative observations with other web references to point this to being a Korean knife because as you say there is zip zero zilch concrete reference material.
There may be some more learned people out there on the subject?
Gav
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