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					Originally Posted by broadaxe
					
				 
				The entire hilt including the thumb ring is very close to a Polish hilt of the 17th century. 
Fitting Turkish blades into Polish & Magyar sabers was not uncommon; similar blades of European manufacture do also exist. 
			
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 Thankyou for your observation !
You've hit on something I've read as well. At the back of my brain pan
in all of this has been a growing interest in which direction the evolution
of the saber came from. Is it commonly held that the blade-styles 
evolved from the east westward ? 
Here's another drawing -- I believe of a sword that existed or does
exist -- that looks quaintly familiar; messaged to me AFTER 
The Black
Saber was made and shipped to me ...