Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing View Post
This image looks so much like a modern jian. Shame that farmer didn't know what he had. There's a lesson to be learned here about restoring potential antiques.
In a blade-related forum I'm a member of, a guy asked the value of an antique Japanese tanto he had acquired. He had cleaned the rust off the blade, and he was told that by doing so, he could have potentially taken around $10,000 off the value of the knife.