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<p>[QUOTE="the blacksmith, post: 9420055, member: 20148"]It was not unusual for theatrical armourers to use genuine blades, as these were usually plentiful, and far easier and cheaper than making new ones, even if one had the skills to make new blades, and many genuine ones are indeed still sharp. There are swords for wearing, and other swords for fighting with. Swords that were simply to be worn are /were quite often genuine and thus quite often still sharp.</p><p>Where I was apprenticed, and where I worked later in a large theatre, we had boxes and boxes of original old sword and gun parts and blades etc. too.</p><p>The quality of the item in the original post seems far inferior to that shown in the later post IMHO.</p><p>For the record, the sword shown by Ranger Rick is a Spanish Artillery hanger of the late 1870's, and undoubtedly genuine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="the blacksmith, post: 9420055, member: 20148"]It was not unusual for theatrical armourers to use genuine blades, as these were usually plentiful, and far easier and cheaper than making new ones, even if one had the skills to make new blades, and many genuine ones are indeed still sharp. There are swords for wearing, and other swords for fighting with. Swords that were simply to be worn are /were quite often genuine and thus quite often still sharp. Where I was apprenticed, and where I worked later in a large theatre, we had boxes and boxes of original old sword and gun parts and blades etc. too. The quality of the item in the original post seems far inferior to that shown in the later post IMHO. For the record, the sword shown by Ranger Rick is a Spanish Artillery hanger of the late 1870's, and undoubtedly genuine.[/QUOTE]
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