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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2011 3:03:03 GMT
Hello All Sword lovers!! I have recently purchased this very unique and unsual sword at a local auction. I have had a few local experts take a look at it; however no one has any information on it.
I do not know what metal the handle is made of but its really heavy.
It seems to me that its a world family tree of sorts.. it has 2000 years of events on the sword that has effected the entire world in some fashion.
The pictures best describe this heavy duty sword.
Oh and it actually retracts!
There are no markings of an artist or manufacture.
Any help??!!
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Post by Elheru Aran on Feb 28, 2011 3:51:10 GMT
It is pretty interesting, like I said in the other thread, but I definitely wouldn't consider it particularly valuable given that nobody can identify anything about it. Best guess is it's some kind of homemade turn-of-the-millennium memorabilia. It's unique enough, that's for sure, so I might display it in a shadow-box of some kind, but aside from that...
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Post by William Swiger on Mar 7, 2011 9:20:41 GMT
Looks like a cool display piece.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2011 1:43:47 GMT
I have no idea of the metal. It looks to be gold in lay.. It is very heavy, so again not sure. I am sure there are metal testers that I can test the metal.
There are 12 significant events over the past 1000 years. One side of the handle has the following listed:
All placards have extreme detail depicting the events:
1969 Moon landing
1928 Discovery of Penicillin
1896 First Modern Olympics
1776 US Deceleration of Independence
1206-1227 Genghis Kahn Conquers Asia
1096-1291 the Crusades
Other side of the handle:
1989 Germany Reunified Berlin Wall Comes down
1939 World War II
1903 Wright Brothers are first to fly
1815 Napoleons Empire Ends at Waterloo
1492 Columbus Arrives in new world
1180 Rise of the Samurai
The first 1000 years on the blade has 6 events they are as follows:
911 The Vikings invade Europe
800 Carlomagne Crowned Emperor
622 Hegira The Muslim faith begins
476 Fall of the Roman Empire
60 Nero watches as Rome burns
30 The Birth of Christianity
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Post by MOK on Mar 15, 2011 17:12:39 GMT
"Vikings invade Europe" - I love how they state it as if the Norse came from somewhere else than Europe itself. Probably blew in from the stellar abysses beyond the North Pole, heralds of Rlim Shaikorth, the White Worm... :roll:  But yeah, an obvious piece of modern millennial memorabilia. Kinda nifty, though, and I too haven't seen anything like it before, so definitely at least one step above the normal Y2K kitsch. A nice display piece and conversation starter, if nothing else! |
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Post by Elheru Aran on May 10, 2011 16:13:30 GMT
Old thread, but resurrecting it because I just identified this sword... It's a "Millennium Peace" sword. It's listed on Bjorn Hellqvist's website, in his Swedish-language section, under "The ugliest swords I've ever seen"... bjorn.foxtail.nu/fulaste.htmtranslate.google.com/translate?j ... ulaste.htm Second link is to Google Translate. Hopefully that works. |
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Post by Hiroshi on May 11, 2011 0:14:11 GMT
Yikes! so how much did you pay for it?
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Post by caferacer on May 11, 2011 0:24:54 GMT
BEST LINK EVER!!!
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