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Originally Posted by Ian
Pertinax, you have written a bleak requiem for the flyssa form. It seems that few flyssa we see on the market and in auctions today are of the traditional style and manufacture. The "wedding nimcha"/curved flyssa knives seem very common, while the older forms are getting harder to find and more expensive than ever. Caveat emptor.
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This requiem was not written by me, but by Camille Lacoste.
My opinion is that only a small number of genuine Kabyle fleeces have reached us. Everything else was made "based on" after 1850 and it is very difficult to determine "who is who".