The first with long slightly curved single-edged blade (surface rust overall, some pitting), the hilt with circular pierced copper guard of tsuba form encrusted with silver scrollwork and foliage against a punched ground on each side, cushion-shaped pommel and basal mount en suite, and wooden grip with longitudinal reinforcing strips bound with twisted silver wire (some damage, partly loose); the second domed and formed from coiled wicker bound together by slender finely woven strips of rattan stained with a geometric design, central silver boss and two pairs of smaller bosses for retaining the internal bracer, the latter carved with two dragon's heads and retaining some original lacquer, and the rim reinforced with a metal rim secured by numerous small dome-headed nails (2) 92 cm. blade and 66.5 cm. diam.
The first with long slightly curved single-edged blade (surface rust overall, some pitting), the hilt with circular pierced copper guard of tsuba form encrusted with silver scrollwork and foliage against a punched ground on each side, cushion-shaped pommel and basal mount en suite, and wooden grip with longitudinal reinforcing strips bound with twisted silver wire (some damage, partly loose); the second domed and formed from coiled wicker bound together by slender finely woven strips of rattan stained with a geometric design, central silver boss and two pairs of smaller bosses for retaining the internal bracer, the latter carved with two dragon's heads and retaining some original lacquer, and the rim reinforced with a metal rim secured by numerous small dome-headed nails (2) 92 cm. blade and 66.5 cm. diam.
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