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It has ended on e-bay and we are legally free to discuss it.
It is a beautiful Tegha, a wide and heavy version of Tulwar, with a big Yelman and profuse Islamic writings on the blade. Looks spectacular!
However...
I am looking at it and feel somewhat uncomfortable: it is way too pristine, with nary a nick on the edge and with an astonishingly intact handle: not a scratch, not a speckle of lost or damaged decoration, not a trace of deformity. The blade appears to wear a brownish "patina" but it looks like a superficial layer of a dried-out dirty lubricant.
You get my drift: who is willing to stick his neck out and vouch for this sword to be old and original instead of modern replica? Are there any reliable signs to distinguish a real stuff from a "Made in India" replica besides one's gut feeling?