Chinese Communist Saber

[hc8604]

I have seen a few examples of a saber on eBay but the sellers listed these as Nationalist WWII sabers that were modeled after the Japanese calvary sabers.

Recently one seller listed this example as a post-WWII saber made by the Communist Chinese.

Currently, there are two on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...emZ290372577003

http://cgi.ebay.com/...emZ350283630959

Any books or websites for more information?

Hopefully I can get a reply, as many Chinese militaria information is hard to find.

[Jonathan Hopkins]

This is outside of my area, but I do have a link for you that may be somewhat useful:

http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/repro.htm

All the best,

Jonathan

[hc8604]

This is outside of my area, but I do have a link for you that may be somewhat useful:

http://home.earthlin...einrl/repro.htm

All the best,

Jonathan

I have seen that link before. They didn't really say when it was from and they don't provide a contact link

Thanks for the help though.

I found out a little bit more about it. I got one reply in an email that he said that he saw these appear in the gun shows in the mid-1990s.

Because of that I belive these were probably from the PRC from post 1949 or so. Maybe these were imported along with the old Chinese firearms from China.