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Originally Posted by Roland_M
A touristic souvenir with a jade hilt, are you sure? The hilt seems handmade without machine driven tools and the corrosion on the blade looks old.
But I'm just a collector, not an expert and for my eyes the pictures are not good enough for a proper statement.
Some macro-pictures would be useful.
Best wishes,
Roland
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Hello Roland,
The hilt material does not look jade at all (i.e. nephrite jade), and the work actually does look machine made and very crude. There are tons of jade/jadeite/quartz daggers currently being produced in India.
The blade could look old, but if it is cut of sheet metal - the look is irrelevant.
The form is actually of Turkish kard (very vainly), but nothing is right about this one. Here's the proper
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