No it wasn't. It may have been a lot of things, but a bronze sword isn't rusty. [sigh]. Journalists, however...
The sad part is that when I read the part about the rusty bronze sword and someone who heard me laugh asked what was I laughing at. I told them to read the article and they said “what, I don’t get it”.
I had to explain.
In the words of Lloyd Bridges in Airplane “I guess I chose the wrong week to quit smoking”