They called to say that my check cleared and......

[kino]

Got it repaired in April, the broken tang was not worth saving so it was replaced.
A brief summary of how it was repaired:
The way I restored it, I believe it's probably.stronger than the original tang was, I used a tungsten-carbide drill to drill two holes into the base area along the center line of the broken tang, to about 1/2 inch deep, then used two high strength, same size "Drill Rod" pins to run down into those two holes, and let them extend out of the broken area and into two matching holes that I drilled up into the new tang about one inch deep, then slid them together and glued all the parts in place with J.B.Weld. The J.B. Weld is good up to about 600 degrees, but each time it gets near there, it looses some of it's strength. I can use a low melt temp. epoxy to set the handle in place, if that's OK with you, and by doing that, heaven forbid, we will be able to remove the hilt if you ever need to sometime down the line.

I was very pleased with the outcome. Here are some photos.
Thanks for asking.