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Historical Artifacts
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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!
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The mounting of this piece is interesting to me. It is kinda hard to tell, but it looks as if there is a needless long point at the tip of the blade, which has been inserted into some kind of acrylic piece to hold it upright. I wonder if that was added for display purposes (which in a way seems like irreparably harming the artifact), or if the original intended shape is just odd.
The picture is too low res to tell for sure, but I believe what you are actually seeing is a rod that comes out of the base, runs behind the sword, and has a cradle at the top to hold the sword just under the guard (the two shiny bits of metal).