Gregg3131
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Landowner of new permission said he found this lying in the woods. Is this old? Or some type or Repro? Any experts out there? I do not know anything about swords.
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It is definitely steel, or iron, and weighs like it is. It has zero edge. Just a flat side. I thought prop when I first saw it but pommell is very heavy for a prop
Cool find, that would be a fun one for sure..
Looks like a shop project to me, ball on end looks welded, handle looks to be round stock... better pics would differently help..
It's always great to have an active imagination.. However, the "not part of a fence" comment is ridiculous. You posted some pictures as examples of swords. Cool. Show some pictures of real swords that have a blade made of flat stock with no fuller, no point, no curvature to the blade at all and with a cross guard that appears to also be made of flat stock like you can buy in any metal supply place. By curvature of the blade I don't mean curved like a cutlass, I mean the cross section of the blade. I can go out to my garage right now and using scrap metal I have collected, make something that looks more like a sword than that thing does... Please take no offense to my comments but if that's a sword it was made by some kid in high school metal shop...Not part of a fence... not a "claymore" sword.
This is a medieval "long sword".
Please post closer / detailed pictures for further opinions etc.
PS...
This highly interests me... and this is one of the following cases...
Repo... taken to these woods for "role play" and left behind / lost.
Real... taken to these woods for "role play" and left behind / lost.
OR... ?
It's always great to have an active imagination.. However, the "not part of a fence" comment is ridiculous. You posted some pictures as examples of swords. Cool. Show some pictures of real swords that have a blade made of flat stock with no fuller, no point, no curvature to the blade at all and with a cross guard that appears to also be made of flat stock like you can buy in any metal supply place. By curvature of the blade I don't mean curved like a cutlass, I mean the cross section of the blade. I can go out to my garage right now and using scrap metal I have collected, make something that looks more like a sword than that thing does... Please take no offense to my comments but if that's a sword it was made by some kid in high school metal shop...
Nobody said YOUR pictures aren't real swords. You DID say it's not part of a fence. I don't agree and I have no idea why you would say that with such certainty without seeing much better pictures. It's all good. I don't come here to argue. But they are completely irrelevant to helping the guy ID whatever it is he found. What would really be helpful would be for him to come back with additional pictures but he seems to have left the building... More pictures of the item he found could easily put any speculation to rest.?
The pics I posted ARE real.
The ops pics...
Cant tell anything by the pictures HENCE why I said to post more.
Nobody said YOUR pictures aren't real swords. You DID say it's not part of a fence. I don't agree and I have no idea why you would say that with such certainty without seeing much better pictures. It's all good. I don't come here to argue. But they are completely irrelevant to helping the guy ID whatever it is he found. What would really be helpful would be for him to come back with additional pictures but he seems to have left the building... More pictures of the item he found could easily put any speculation to rest.
It's always great to have an active imagination.. However, the "not part of a fence" comment is ridiculous. You posted some pictures as examples of swords. Cool. Show some pictures of real swords that have a blade made of flat stock with no fuller, no point, no curvature to the blade at all and with a cross guard that appears to also be made of flat stock like you can buy in any metal supply place. By curvature of the blade I don't mean curved like a cutlass, I mean the cross section of the blade. I can go out to my garage right now and using scrap metal I have collected, make something that looks more like a sword than that thing does... Please take no offense to my comments but if that's a sword it was made by some kid in high school metal shop...