Very astute Flavio! and not in the least bit 'stupid' !!!
This probably is a bayonet blade, and these blades taken from the bayonets of colonial weapons quite typical on this form (genoui) as well as the s'boula which turns up as far as Zanzibar and Ethiopia referred to as a Zanzibar sword (see Burton). This is one of the reasons that references to many European and British regulation arms become closely associated to the study of ethnographic edged weapons.
The so called 'Berber' sabres, that attribution remaining somewhat in question, is typically mounted with blades from British M1796 light cavalry sabres with highly profiled tip.
Now the question would be, what type of bayonet? My guess would be 19th century French.....anybody got a bayonet book?
Best regards,
Jim
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