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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 9414065, member: 56&quot;]It does look nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect not a sword hilt simply because there seems to be no way to anchor it to a tang.&nbsp; Maybe made after the Meiji restoration when the producers of swords, sword furnishings, netsuke and the like turned to non-functional carving of objects still based on the old forms.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe things like this were produced to affix to a sword on display, but it seems to me that when blades are displayed, the tang is exposed - the display is all blade, and only blade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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