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<p>[QUOTE="the blacksmith, post: 10228282, member: 20148"]It looks like it is a theatrical piece. </p><p>Companies like Bongartz in Germany made similar weapons in very large numbers for use in the theatre from the mid nineteenth century until the eary nineteen sixties</p><p>The piece (blade and scabbard anyway) looks typically German. </p><p>The hilt is far too slender to be a military piece, and the quality far off what one would ecpect for a regulation military weapon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="the blacksmith, post: 10228282, member: 20148"]It looks like it is a theatrical piece. Companies like Bongartz in Germany made similar weapons in very large numbers for use in the theatre from the mid nineteenth century until the eary nineteen sixties The piece (blade and scabbard anyway) looks typically German. The hilt is far too slender to be a military piece, and the quality far off what one would ecpect for a regulation military weapon.[/QUOTE]
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