If you are going to use it as opposed to simply displaying it, make sure you get a "live" one. Hard to explain, but a blacksmith will know what I mean.

(My brother -- both are eccentric, but this is the moreso of the two -- has a forge, anvil, and the whole works. He recently made me and the other brother a knife with a Damascus blade. It's right pretty. He sold his coffin, but he still has two cannons.)