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Old 4th July 2006, 01:08 AM   #2
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I don't know about tourist piece. Certainly it is recent. The blade looks like steel or white metal in most of the pictures, but brass in the closeup.

The inscription I think is a bismallah (name of God) or at least a petition to God, the first word (going right to left) is "Allah".
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