A Coteng for comment...

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Originally Posted by DAHenkel

These are very wierd.

My initail guess - fakes, made recently - 18th c. is out of the question. Authentic silver coteng hilts date to about the middle of the 19th c.

Much more research and examination of early provenanced examples needs to be done ....

DAHenkel and BluErf,

Since this is likely not to be authentic... then this hulu can at least serve as an example of what is "floating around" today, and be useful as a reference (for what not to buy). Is there anything you would like pictures of or better pictures of???

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