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20th July 2005, 05:03 AM
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Ariel, you bring up my worst fears for the future to come! As a self-professed bargain-hunter and eBayer, it is sometimes very irritating to guess from a half-out of focus pic if you are getting a steal or getting robbed. The frustration of passing up on an item because you can't hold it in your hand! We're seeing this not only with Japanese weapons, but American "Confederate" items as well. Many of the fakes, with a little aging and fake patina, are hard to tell. To add confusion to the whole thing, then there are real weapons out there, but grossly misidentified. Many Spanish colonial swords look like Confederate D-guards, many Philippine bolos likewise. It has gotten to the point for me where I won't even look at the Japanese/Chinese/Tibetan stuff on eBay anymore...sigh.
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20th July 2005, 10:18 PM
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This is no more traditional Japanese than I am.
 There has been talk about these really good Chinese fakes now beginning to come out of the country on the nihonto section of Sword Forum .com. I agree with Andrew - acid etch hamon, all over the place. Nice piece of junk, but still piece of junk never the less. My rule of thumb - If it says "china" as an origin, run away. 
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20th July 2005, 10:58 PM
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Battara,
I could not agree more: any antique sword coming from China or Hong Kong, or "shipped from China", or having any hint of connection with China,- should not be touched with a 10 foot pole!! My point is, that no matter how junky (and it IS junky!), this "katana" represents a quantum leap in craftsmanship over the awfully junky stuff we are accustomed to see on e-bay. This is a bad omen: the buggers in Nanjing have learned new tricks and are getting more professional. It is just like finding that a usually docile and antibiotic-sensitive bug suddenly became resistant to penicillin. It is not yet a real problem, because there are many more, and more active antibiotics, but... it is inevitable that the bug will mutate further and further and suddenly we will have no drug against him. The Black Plague all over again.... |
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20th July 2005, 11:13 PM
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MRSA swords!
I joke, Ariel, but I agree completely. |
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20th July 2005, 11:30 PM
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No comprende . I wouldn't be surprised to see more and more fakes coming out of the former CCCP also . Does anyone have a timetable for Chinese fake sword world domination ?  Seriously though , I for one am amazed at some of the Philippine/Indo stuff that seems to get snapped up for ridiculous prices as so called Civil War Bowies on ebay . |
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21st July 2005, 02:58 AM
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You hit it right on the head! The Chinese government's bid to buy that oil company in California is just a deversion They will fill our country up with poorly made swords so when and if we ever go to war with them they will break during combat and leave us defenseless Lew |
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21st July 2005, 04:36 AM
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MRSA = methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus It's a common bacteria. Unfortunately, it has become resistant to most antibiotics, and can cause serious infections, particularly for hospitalized patients. Nasty bug.
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21st July 2005, 12:31 AM
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