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Hotspur would be the guy to ask about that sort of thing. No pictures? Where is your family from?

Thanks for the vote of confidence but these are a niche in and of themselves that I simply don't have a great deal of experience with. On a hunch, I would think a leather strap for such would be large enough to pass your hand through and not a finger or thumb loop. If I happen across a similar item with such intact, I'll remember this thread.

There is a good basic conservation article here
swordforum.com/articles/ams/conservation.php and others at the adjoined forum may be familiar with this specific example.

I would clean the blade off with anything that will cut the build up and then either very light oil, simply keep clean and dry (my usual routine for antiques), or there is a product called Renaissance Wax that many seem to like for antiques. I would not use oils on the cane itself and even be hesitant to use the above mentioned product. Keep it from extremes of hot/cold dry/humid Displayed or not, keep it from long exposures to direct sunlight.

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Hotspur; there may be book titles that are helpful for these but I don't know what they would be

Rubbing alcohol, hot soapy water, firearms care products, auto products. Check out that conservation article. You are basically just dealing with steel and wood, neither take on different characteristics in weapons form. if you use hot soapy water, just make sure you dry it thouroughly.

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Hotspur; I had actually been using Windex glass cleaner for a lot of things but the can is finally empty, I'll have to see what else is kicking around or buy some more

on the second photo, you can see the blue/purple stuff on the blade, near the handle. it seems to have partially worn off. any ideas what it is, or how to preserve it? it looks like it might be some kind of varnish

i cleaned the blade, and some of the loose rust came off. i put some WD40 on the rest of it, and it's gone from red to brown/black, which i believe is a good thing. apart from that, i've decided to leave it alone (as long as it's not getting worse, i'm happy, also i have a tendency to break things)

it's now living out of it's case in a warm dry room (the rust pattern on the blade indicates that the inside of the case might have been damp)

hi

long time no speaky and all that
it's amazing how much time passes if you stop paying attention

more questions on what to do with the sword (i've learnt by experience over the years that asking before doing things when uncertain is generally a good plan)

noting that the sword has a layer of inactive rust near the tip (which can be seen on the photos), i'd quite like to remove this without causing damage if possible. would a rust removing block (the company i use for my fencing epées sells them) be appropriate, or am i going to damage the blade through inexperience?

i store the sword in its wooden sheath/scabbard/thing, since i leave it at home when at university (taking a sword to london on the train seems like a very bad plan), and it does not appear to have deteriorated further during the year

i've decided simply not to touch the shiny blue layer except for occasionally oiling it along with the rest of the blade

i have a parang (a type of indonesian machete) that i aquired from a local whilst on holiday, which i can practice on if that sort of thing is relevant

noting that the case for the sword cane has survived this long, do i need to do anythign to preserve it, or will it be ok if i leave it alone?

ive seen somthing similar. dose it have a triangle blade. the one i seen had a triangle blabe, excelent staber but the blade was near imposable to sharpen.