Great detail on this silver plated bronze handled sword cane. The hidden mechanism in its metal tappered shaft makes it so you can't tell its a sword cane. Tappered is important to mention because there were very few antique canes that didn't have tappered shafts. The best way to tell a fake is that the shaft doesn't tapper and there arn't any reproduction metal tappered shafts. I looked into it once and got a price of $10000 just for the tooling to make one.