I picked up the top three west African (Dahomey?) ceremonial swords for the price of one Italian pizza at a local restaurant each.
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They are not sharpened and could be tourist pieces, but they look an awful lot like the 1930s ceremonial Hwi and Gubasa swords from the Ghana/Togo/Benin area featured elsewhere on this forum (and on at least one well known antique arms vendor's site who shall not be named I spotted an extremely similar sword for sale for about 66x what I paid for these
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Also shown (bottom) is an (Ashanti?) akrafena sword that I've had since last year.
Your comments would be welcome.
Will add detailed pics of each sword in separate replies.
EDIT: Related thread(s):
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23002