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It arrived today.  I opened the package, and the knife came out in two pieces.  I have contacted the seller as I couldn't think of anything better to do. I bought it as repaired (and I see faint signs of a previous repair), so I might just repair it keep that designation. On an observational note, the rims are high and shaped just like those on the Qi knives. It is also a lot smaller than I had expected, about 2/3 the size of a normal knife. Perhaps a value 1/2 knife? I still don't see any charcters on the reverse. I have no idea how to classify this. Possibly a burial piece (the Ancient Chinese were known to put smaller-size / devalued coinage in the graves), but the casting quality seems too good for this. It is probably not a local variety as the Boshan knives were a local type.  |
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Glad that you have it hand, but bummered about the newly reopened fracture. These things must be kinda brittle, no?
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The seller has offered to repair it at no cost to me, except postage back to him. I think I will take his offer.
They are brittle, but not so much as to break with the meager amount of force necessary to free it from the tissue. However, looking at the break, I see crystalized bronze, which means this coin is at least contemporary to when it was originally made.
I'm still surprised by how small it is, and I have no explanation for it. Let me get a picture of it next to another knife.
I found a single round character on the reverse, so I am attributing this knife as H-4.46.
Edited by TypeCoin971793
06/27/2016 4:27 pm
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It's a tough call when something you want so badly, which you thought you had, slips away because the vendor did not handle it properly. You will surely go through the 5 stages. If this had been an ebay transaction, even ebay would stand behind you in a claim against the seller - but then you have to give it up. I hope the seller will own up to responsibility for the loss, and grant you a significant price adjustment so you can keep it as a spacefiller. And I hope a replacement surfaces in the short term. Quote:
They are brittle, but not so much as to break with the meager amount of force necessary to free it from the tissue. I don't think that is when it fractured, even if that is when it came apart. I suspect that the knife was not protected from bending while in transit, and that other mailed items cracked it through whatever packing material it was in. You will need to use something to stiffen the package, such as a wooden tongue depresser parallel to the blade, to support it for the back and forth. And mark it FRAGILE. Edited by lrbguy
06/27/2016 4:40 pm
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See how small this knife is? It weighs 4.4g, while the bigger knife weighs 14.7g. I have never seen a knife coin so small. But it looks like a genuine artefact from over 2000 years ago.  |
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I don't think that is when it fractured, even if that is when it came apart. I suspect that the knife was not protected from bending while in transit, and that other mailed items cracked it through whatever packing material it was in. You will need to use something to stiffen the package, such as a wooden tongue depresser parallel to the blade, to support it for the back and forth. And mark it FRAGILE. Let me elaborate. It was wrapped in tissue paper, and that was taped in between two styrofoam blocks. Then this was placed into a medium-sized box and surrounded with packing bubbles. It was well-packed. When I was unpacking the knife, I cut the tape to minimize the amount of force to extract the knife from the package. Edited by TypeCoin971793
06/27/2016 5:26 pm
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Quote:It's a tough call when something you want so badly, which you thought you had, slips away because the vendor did not handle it properly. You will surely go through the 5 stages. If this had been an ebay transaction, even ebay would stand behind you in a claim against the seller - but then you have to give it up. I hope the seller will own up to responsibility for the loss, and grant you a significant price adjustment so you can keep it as a spacefiller. It had already been repaired, so it was already going to be a space filler. I will probably send it back to get it professionally repaired yet again. |
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All fixed.   |
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