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3D Model of the Blade of the Italian eBay Sword

4/4/2016

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As promised on Friday, here is a 3D model of the Italian eBay sword (Fake Hercules Sword #4) that includes the "front" surface of the blade. I had to simplify the model several times to get the file size beneath the maximum accepted by Sketchfab, but you can still clearly see the various casting anomalies in the blade that allowed sharp-eyed #Swordgate followers to identify the Italian eBay sword and the "Roman sword" from Nova Scotia as being produced from the same mold.

The default lighting on Sketchfab doesn't show the details well.  I recommend changing the rendering option to "Matcap" to highlight the surface details. And, of course, you can download the model for yourself if you like.

Italian eBay sword with front blade surface by aawhite on Sketchfab

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Still of the 3D model of the blade of the Italian eBay sword (rendered as "Matcap").
I wish everyone out there could have a close look at the "blade" of this sword. It is really thick, rough, and poorly crafted. When you hold it in your hand for yourself, you have to really put on blinders to ever be able to convince yourself that this "sword" was crafted as a special, magical gift from a Roman emperor. It simply wasn't - there is no way. And the fact that the blades of this sword and the Oak Island sword are the same means that this one isn't just a crude copy of that one - they're twins. I would bet you substantial money that the two swords compare well in almost every detail.

The idea that these are ancient Roman swords is just a joke. There is zero positive evidence for that idea and a heap of accumulated evidence against it. I've placed an open invitation on the Fake Hercules Sword group on Facebook if anyone (including Hutton Pulitzer) would like to come on and tell us why any/all of these Fake Hercules Swords are or are not ancient Roman artifacts. 

Remember when Pulitzer said the actual Italian eBay sword was "fake, cast iron, and whatever"?

Remember when Pulitzer said the photo of the Italian eBay sword was of an "original" sword that was in the Naples Museum? His followers continue to spout that nonsense to confuse the issue. The sword mailed to New Brunswick was the same one shown in the image on eBay. Any person with two eyes can see that.

​Remember when Pulitzer said the Oak Island sword had gold on it? It doesn't. It never did. He was looking at brass exposed by the fake patina being worn away.

Remember when Pulitzer said that Christa Brosseau's high zinc results were wrong and that he would release his own XRF data showing little to no zinc?  But that release of data never happened. Instead, he produced a 3 GB "report" trying to explain why Brosseau's results were consistent with ancient Roman brass. 

And what about that original in the Naples Museum?

And what about the "legend" talking about ten swords being made?

And what about the "magical powers"?

Who still believes this story about a "Roman sword from Nova Scotia"?  And why?  That's a serious question.
4 Comments
Pablo
4/4/2016 07:15:14 am

What I remember is when he said that the OI (supposed) Roman sword had a internal navigational device that allowed it to point north. Clearly, the evidence of that must be somewhere in the "200 page report"

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Trevor Furlotte
4/4/2016 07:25:34 am

I have screen shots of all the pictures from the Ebay add for my sword if anyone wants to see them.

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Peter Geuzen
4/4/2016 05:36:18 pm

The expired sale page is still cached, so the pictures are actually still up:

http://www.ebay.it/itm/PARTICOLARE-SCULTURA-COMMEMORATIVA-SPADA-BRONZEA-ROMANA-CON-IMPUGNATURA-STATUA-/301746768453

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Joe Scales
4/4/2016 08:08:37 am

If history is any guide... and I mean the history of Fringe... the Roman sword found off the shore at Oak Island will still become yet another fabrication sewn into the treasure myth/hoax. This has gone on for the better part of two centuries, and in each successive generation, both science and reason have never prevailed.

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