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Originally Posted by ariel
Well, the geschtalt is clearly Persian/Indo-Persian. The identical decorative patterns suggest mass production.
IMHO, the likelihood that they were made in Europe is vanishingly low ( more likely, zero), unless you have evidence to the contrary. New shafts would not count as such.
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Ariel, from what I have seen the shafts are original equipment, they are all very similar and all have that red tassle at the top. Now if you look at known examples of Indo-Persian axe I do not think that socketed axe are very common but these strange examples all have a socket. There is no reason to think that these could not have been made in Europe or elsewere outside of the countries we normally associate this type of axe with.