I picked up this vintage rantankarus from an antique store yesterday for a couple bucks. The scales were broken off and there's a bit of rust but I had never seen a straight with a hole in the tail, out of tens of thousands ive seen. I'm thinking it was a way to hang it up for storage, seems brilliantly simple. For now I'm just going to clean up the blade and preserve it for a future project.
My tail has a hole in it?