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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter
It looks a bit too old and oxidized (at least around the hilt) to be your average souvenir/wallhanger sword, but in either case, I can't believe it took more than a page to discern 刀 from katakana カ. orz
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It's not exactly beyond the capacity of modern technology to fake that kind of oxidation or aging, though. Oxidizing a metal isn't very difficult, it was something I did in a lab second semester of general chemistry. The the second point, I agree.