Very plain early Celtic short sword, 16" stainless blade, unsharpened, no sheath

Description: Offered is a very plain, sturdy leaf-bladed short sword that would work nicely in any earlier Iron Age European context, being so absent identifying details it could be Celtic, Germanic, Slavic... The stainless blade is 15 15/16" x 2 5/8" at the hilt, 3 1/4" at the widest point of the blade x 1/8" thick, with a 5/8" wide half-tang notched along its length and anchored solidly with high-impact epoxy into the walnut haft. The pommel and what serves as a guard are birch. The halves of the guard are solidly pinned and epoxied to the haft, and bound with epoxy where they support the base of the blade. The nature of the epoxy used is that it would take prolonged exposure to a lethal degree of freezing temperature, or such heat that the hilt would probably burn off before the epoxy itself finally liquified. The blade is unsharpened, but at a point where sharpening would be a relatively quick and easy process. Other than to alter their shape or clean them up, in either case returning the visible steel to basically new, I leave the edges alone. Some I acquire are sharper than others. I leave it to the new owner's discretion as to how sharp they want, or, more rarely, actually need. The fact that this item doesn't come with a sheath (easily made, either wood or leather being fairly simple and very historically correct) might be considered when deciding how far to go with the sharpening.

Price: 42.5 USD

Location: Lawrenceburg, Indiana

End Time: 2024-11-06T21:28:57.000Z

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