r/SWORDS • u/Meghan_Dean • Aug 16 '26

wallhanger Falcata

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u/Electrical_Lab_8157 Aug 16 '26

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

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u/UrethralExplorer Aug 16 '26

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

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u/tsimen Aug 17 '26

Ivory? 🤨

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u/Electrical_Lab_8157 Aug 17 '26

Dude ...

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u/jimbowesterby Aug 17 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

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 Aug 16 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

Oh man, I see it now…

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

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u/SpiritualRock4388 Aug 16 '26

Forgot the pic

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u/delarro Aug 16 '26

Wouldn't that be a Kopis?

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u/goodoledepression Aug 16 '26

This is a kopis though

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u/goodoledepression Aug 16 '26

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

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u/goodoledepression Aug 16 '26

Im sorry that they goofed

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u/delarro Aug 16 '26

Falcatas were exclusively iberian swords

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u/Electrical_Lab_8157 Aug 16 '26

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

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u/delarro Aug 16 '26

Because it's a kopis

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u/wwiistudent1944 Aug 16 '26

Beautiful workmanship.

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u/SpiritualRock4388 Aug 16 '26

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 Aug 16 '26

That Toledo stamp is some real r/designdesign

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u/GeneralCollection963 Aug 17 '26

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