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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gckimm, post: 9598923, member: 83519&quot;]Hi:</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a Chinese bill of sale totaling, in Chinese currency, 79 dollars and 70 cents.&nbsp; Kaiser is correct about the repeating 60-year cycle of years but the year is 甲子, not 甲午.&nbsp; It is from the year 1924, not 60 years earlier or later, verified by the Chinese Republic revenue stamp affixed to the bottom left corner.</p><p><br /></p><p>The items listed were a little puzzling to me, as there many weapons: two large swords? three bows (as in bows and arrows)?&nbsp; The weapons were too archaic for an army in 1924．Research on the first items listed proved to be the key.&nbsp; They are 金瓜月斧 or “golden melon and moon axe.&quot;&nbsp; In modern times these ancient weapons--the first one a mace-like hammer and the second an axe shaped like a half moon--are used in martial arts.&nbsp; My conclusion is that this gentleman was buying supplies for a martial arts studio or martial arts students.</p><p><br /></p><p>Greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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