Sword found in woods!! Authentic or repro?

[Gregg3131]

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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[XLV]

Gregg did you take a close look at this object ? Did you see any welds or braze flows ? (which was used for the last 120 to 130 years ) How deep are the pit marks if any ? Am half blind and what i see in the photos it not old looks like something used for decoration ....I hope am wrong

 

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[ARC]

Gregg did you take a close look at this object ? Did you see any welds or braze flows ? (which was used for the last 120 to 130 years ) How deep are the pit marks if any ? Am half blind and what i see in the photos it not old looks like something used for decoration ....I hope am wrong

My eyes deceive me as well.

A picture says a thousand words... IF you can see it.

Personally... for me... IF someone really want me to ID anything accurately...

Hand it to me.

I love pictures... but key features and details usually evade me.

Guess it would help if I clicked on them. :P

 

[ARC]

Look guys... its like this...

To be honest... I do not spend much time on solves...

I do click on posted pictures but rarely let them load all the way due to size OR my patience ... and usually only click one picture IF I do click any at all.

As far as this item is concerned...

I just clicked on pictures... all of them...

Upon closer inspection this "sword" is what I believed it probably was from the beginning...

A home made.. shop class made... blah blah blah made... Long sword.

Flat bar stock.

I usually refrain or hang back on "what is its" till other users get in guesses or solve it... then I sorta bump along into it.

Without opening pictures by the OP I already felt this sword was a "knock off" just simply by the guard being too lame.

BUT... per rules of Tnet...

We are not supposed to just claim "fake" etc... without proof etc etc....... SO.... I let OTHERS do all that.

I am too damn busy to jibber jabber every thing.

Anyway...

I will continue to "bow out" on solves.



PS>>>>>>>>> I posted the pics of the real swords just for the "style" of sword in question.

 

[XLV]

What the old saying 11 out 10 katana are fake no one here is saying that this object that looks like a possible sword is fake photos can be deceiving

 

[NHBandit]

You are always a breath of fresh air....

Sorry I tend not to sugarcoat anything. I'll try to be more "sensitive"...

 

[Gene Mean]

Cool find! Sure looks like a sword but could it be a lightening rod?

 

[Worm-Slicer]

If you enlarge and look closely you can see the tip if you look in the second photo and kinda has the same tip as a claymore training sword where it rounds off and is not very pointy. It's a crude homemade one because there is no gutter. People make homemade stuff like that all the time with what they have. Whoever made it just wanted something that the overall appearance was like a sword, and having a gutter in the blade was not important to them. Whoever made it never intended it to have an edge either and I believe this is for safety reasons.

 

[gunsil]

I have made some motion pictures. This was not a prop sword. It has no edge! Even our plastic ones and cast resin ones LOOK real. It does have a medieval style to it. But with nothing more than a rectangular "blade", it never was a sword. Or a movie prop. Most movie props are made of items that aren't metal. And they won't cut you, but with digital enlargement and freeze frames they would never use something so blunt.

Smokey, I worked as a stage manager off-Broadway, worked on major movie and play sets, there were PLENTY of metal sword and other weapons props. They used real Colt sixguns too.