A love from Indochina

[Yannis]

Originally Posted by Nick Wardigo

The blade is interesting, but I don't think it has a central rib per se. It is common to incise the blade with double fullers.

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My point about YOUR blade is that it seems to be an even further exaggeration. It appears as though the fullering extends entirely off the edge. Technically, I suppose this could be considered "hollow ground", creating the central rib structure. There is an example of double kiem at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that comes very close to your example, but the fullering is just shy of the edge.

Thank you Nick. I accept anything you say about artistic style but I have a problem with the opinions about the blade. Maybe my English do not help but I cannot see the point. There is NO fuller on this blade. There is a clearly raised rib both sides.

My first thought was of a European small sword but this blade is hand forged. I surely don’t know why is like this and if it is rare.

If it helps, the blade is 680mm long, 29mm wide. Even without the rib it is diamond cross section. The ricasso is 66mm long and the rib is 6mm wide in the start.