Thanks.
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, I suspect the bird may have been added later. I do not think it was a 'royal' sword, maybe just one given to someone & decorated later.
So it is the royal Peacock (not a phoenix
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) I suspected it might be a peacock.
Any more accurate translation on the inscription on the silver bit?