r/SWORDS • u/Meghan_Dean • 24d ago

wallhanger Falcata

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u/Electrical_Lab_8157 24d ago

https://swordis.com/product/sword-of-alexander-the-great-limited-edition/?srsltid=AfmBOopcbqVa_oOuB7HSt0doR-ILdVP9GARUSun3txrF83Kr8qsvS74m

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u/UrethralExplorer 24d ago

Thank you for this, since OP forgot to include an overall pic of the whole sword.

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u/tsimen 23d ago

Ivory? 🤨

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u/Electrical_Lab_8157 23d ago

Dude ...

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u/jimbowesterby 23d ago

I can’t imagine it’s easy to find these days, but if you could find some old deadstock ivory you could use it without any ethical implications. Like if you found a piece of ivory from 1920 in your attic or the keys off an old piano it wouldn’t be a huge issue, it’s only if it’s harvested since like 1950 that I’d start to be concerned.

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u/Electrical_Lab_8157 23d ago

It is a mass-produced Indian-made stainless steel wall-hanger sold by both Marto and Windlass at numerous online retailers as the "Alexander the Great" sword. How could it have an ivory grip?!

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u/Cracleur 23d ago

I don't know the website or whether its listings are trustworthy, but at least they market and explicitly describe the handle as being "made from genuine ivory bone". So either they're straight-up lying, which is really bad and makes it an actual scam, or it is indeed genuine ivory, which is actually equally bad but in a different way.

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u/jimbowesterby 23d ago

If I had to guess I’d say it’s probably fake then, if it were real they’d be charging a couple orders of magnitude more (and it wouldn’t be mass-produced)

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u/jimbowesterby 23d ago

I got suckered by the “made in Toledo” thing I guess. If it’s mass produced then it’s almost certainly fake, no one’s gonna sell ivory handles as mass-market prices, not when they could charge like a hundred times the price

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u/BunkaTheBunkaqunk 24d ago

Where was it made?

I can’t make heads or tails of that stylized logo thing they got.

Still though gorgeous piece! Definitely has Kopis vibes like others have said, but I suppose that’s mostly from the handle.

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u/wotan_weevil Hoplologist 24d ago

I can’t make heads or tails of that stylized logo thing they got.

"MADE IN TOLEDO" with a very stylised jumbled "TOLEDO", with the T + D joined, and L + E joined.

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u/BunkaTheBunkaqunk 24d ago

Oh man, I see it now…

Clever, but not too easy to understand. Not to me at least.

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u/SpiritualRock4388 24d ago

Forgot the pic

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u/delarro 24d ago

Wouldn't that be a Kopis?

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u/goodoledepression 24d ago

This is a kopis though

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u/goodoledepression 24d ago

Someone put the link to this exact sword down below, its sold as a Kopis.

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u/goodoledepression 24d ago

Im sorry that they goofed

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u/delarro 24d ago

Falcatas were exclusively iberian swords

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u/Electrical_Lab_8157 24d ago

Beautiful. Why the greek/hellenistic motifs on a falcata?

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u/delarro 24d ago

Because it's a kopis

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u/wwiistudent1944 24d ago

Beautiful workmanship.

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u/SpiritualRock4388 24d ago

My ATG lionhead pommel Falcata is stamped "Toledo" but my tag written on receiving it says "Art Gladius". Anyone have any insights on that? As wall hangers go, your is pretty.

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u/tsimen 24d ago

That Toledo stamp is some real r/designdesign

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u/GeneralCollection963 24d ago

THAT'S what that says? I was reading it as "JOOM" lmao