A sort of Gryffindor sword

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:

> Err, how does that exactly amount to Harry Potter?  Anyway, it's 
> not bad looking.  It's approximately $80 US.  

Ow! You can get a probably better sword for a certainly better price 
at www.thegiftfairies.com . Here is their picture of the sword 
I bought as a present for my friend: 
http://www.thegiftfairies.com:80/fairies/assets/product_images/product
_lib/30000-30999/30024.jpg

It's only $49.95 (and I don't remember the s&h) and at that price, 
Tim and I were expecting a bit of Toledo tin trash. We were happily 
shocked when it arrived and was a Real Sword! of Pakistani Stainless 
Steel, and the scabbord is good too, and my friend adores it.

Her "Excalibur" is even lower ($44.95) and has a RED gemstone, so it 
is more similar to the sword of Gryffindor than that Napoleon sword 
is. 

(For some reason she didn't post pictures of two eagle long knives 
that are also available: #31480 is dagger shaped has a metal hilt 
with a an eagle with spread wings as the guard, or whatever that 
cross-thing is called, and #29359 is more sabre shaped and has a 
wooden hilt with an eagle's head on the top (where mine has a lion's 
head) and I didn't actually buy either of them so I can't vouch for 
how good they are.)

The Battle Orders website seems to be (how to put this gently?) 
abyssmally slow at loading. I persisted because I love to look at 
pictures of swords. Most of their prices look appalling, but some of 
their styles look nice. I wish they had some text explaining where 
they were copied from (inspired by), such as: what is a Beer Brewer 
Sword with a beautifully but implausibly twisted blade?