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Tim Simmons · 7th March 2008, 10:38 PM

It could be a native blade. Or perhaps native finished. I would not like to suggest that native smiths were lacking. However it does appear to me that it is steel that has been through the mill so to speak, I could well be wrong. It is also more than possible that trade went east west as much as west east. Zanzibar is a long way away from Mali and the "Manding".

7th March 2008, 10:38 PM	#21
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,925	It could be a native blade. Or perhaps native finished. I would not like to suggest that native smiths were lacking. However it does appear to me that it is steel that has been through the mill so to speak, I could well be wrong. It is also more than possible that trade went east west as much as west east. Zanzibar is a long way away from Mali and the "Manding". Last edited by Tim Simmons; 7th March 2008 at 10:51 PM.