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			Thanks a bunch for your thoughts.  I haven't yet received the item, so I can't say yet if there are signs of shortening, or if there are signs that the blade was removed from a katar.  I have never seen a katar with such a "ball" at the base of the blade, nor one with a snake going down the middle, so I'd love to see pictures for comparison.  I've found this thread on the old forum about so-called "katars on a stick" 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000729.html No pictures, unfortunately, but this one (much later than mine I think, and far more obviously a katar) ended on ebay recently: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=009 I'll certainly post pictures of the key areas when I receive it! I appreciate your help, --Radleigh  | 
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