Hi,
Two questions: is the blade sharp, or has it been sharpened at some stage?
Is that a hint of a wootz pattern, or is the pic fooling me?
I've seen easily over 100 "tourist" market swords from Iran and Rajastan, and NONE of them ever had a sharpened blade, and none of them showed a wootz pattern, but nearly always a definite mechanical damascus pattern.
Yours doesn't look like them, at least from your pics. Even the koftgari looks different. It may not be ancient, but looks to be a serviceable fighting sword.
-d
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