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Found a short sword

It looks Chinese to me as well. Nice bronze fittings. I wonder if it's a souvenir of the Boxer Rebellion, in as much as you found a 1905 V nickel near by.

Thank you for your feedback. I have been researching Chinese tunkou as that seems the type most similar, but it is tough going. Your comment gives another avenue of research. Thanks!

I like the finding stuff part better, the research angle I need staff! :lol:
 
The pics work when I use https, but not http. It looks like the URLs inserted for the pics are https, and most browsers probably won't load mixed-zone resources like that because of the potential security issues. Moral of the story: always use https everywhere.
 
I'm trying to understand what is going on here. I log out and back in, go to this thread and I see photos in posts #1, 2, 4, and 5. I freely admit it could be me, but this site seems strange in the way it handles photos.
Does anybody else not see any photos?

I switched to the Google Chrome browser and the pictures showed up.
 
ok...I can see the pictures now.

It's pretty toasted, but it looks like a wakizashi to me, although the Tsuka is a little short, but that could just be the perspective.
 
Waaay cool. Not many people in the US have found one.....CONGRATS!!!

You really need to figure out how to preserve it since the air has moisture and will rust it to pieces....

You dig a good job digging it out whole....I'm sure I would have destroyed it!!!



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This is just a thought, but I’m fairly sure that’s one of those Chinese coins like turn up quite frequently. They were used to decorate native American stuff, lamps imported to America and etc. and etc.
So maybe it’s a sword from this continent that somebody decorated with the coin??
 
Was thinking not Chinese but Japanese at first. Still not sure but with fakes or reproductions that are el-cheapos they put anything on them that looks Asian. A wakazashi attempt judging by length. It's pretty roached. [edit] After seeing the images more closely and my Chinese wife looking at it. She says it's not Chinese characters. Having a pattern like that in the hilt below the hand guard is extremely atypical. The guard would have been made out of brass so if it isn't, it's a junk blade sold to wanna be ninjas LOL! If it were real the blade would have the maker's characters on the tang. Conclusion is a Wakazashi made in China ;)


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I would not think that's any modern repo or clone of something old as I've seen many of those and they all have modern stainless blades that would take many decades to get in this advanced condition of decay. I believe it's an old original of whatever country of origin. It was obviously in the ground a very long time. Mighty cool find, congratulations!

Don

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