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Hello to you all. This is my first Vietnamese Sword. My husband collects old British and Spanish ones but I liked the look of this one and came to your site to research.
Many of the Asian swords out there seem to be lumped as coming from 4 or 5 different countries, so that's not the way to find out. Would someone be kind enough to give me feedback on this one? ![]() |
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I seem to recall that the figure S stamped in series on these blades was similar in meaning to those bite marks (hogsback/ eyelash marks) on blades from Genoa...as a mark of excellence. Please see http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=183 and http://mandarinmansion.com/antique-vietnamese-arms
Is the round guard missing? Last edited by Ibrahiim al Balooshi; 21st October 2016 at 09:27 PM. |
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Hello Canbrit,
welcome to the forum, good to have another woman as member! ![]() ![]() Your sword isn't from Vietnam but from Thailand, called dha or daab and maybe a Vietnam war bringback from an US soldier. The sword is very recent, i.e. from the 70ties last century. Here is a link to an older thread about this sort of dha: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=vietnam There is mentioned from Andrew also an old thread written from Ian but I can't find it in the moment. Best regards, Detlef |
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Hi Ibrahiim, the shown sword isn't from Vietnam but a Thai sword, they normally don't have a guard. Regards, Detlef |
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Ah well spotted Sagen... I thought as I was looking up Vietnamese swords; .."THATS FUNNY THIS ONE HAS NO GUARD"?? ![]() |
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Some supporting detail... Please See http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001291.html
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WELCOME TO THE FORUM
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