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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 2455883, member: 78244&quot;]It arrived today. I opened the package, and the knife came out in two pieces. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie44" alt=":drowning:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />I have contacted the seller as I couldn&#039;t think of anything better to do. I bought it as repaired (and I see faint signs of a previous repair), so the dealer offered to repair it free of charge. It won&#039;t affect the value at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>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 1/2 the size of a normal knife. Perhaps a value 1/2 knife? It weighs 4.4g while a normal Ming knife weighed 14.7g.</p><p><br /></p><p>There seems to be a single round character on the reverse, so my attribution is H-4.46.</p><p><br /></p><p>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. Maybe [USER=75799]@Loong Siew[/USER] can help.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]513864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]513865[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole corral:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]513866[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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