I never agreed on utaleterian things that a little cleaning and sureing up bothered anything,especialy if you gonna use it,and that is what they are for,a civilwar sword i may not do it on,but heck i would of cleaned and sured that up in heartbeat,but that's just me..I had a set of civil war utensils i cleaned up and traded for something else i wanted,i still have a bone toothbrush,i dug up on Main St here in town there used to be a post here,it ain't got no brissils and if anyone wants it they can have it,i do mostly native american and old west.