Teodor,
I cannot see any rivet holes in the tang. Do you think the original owners used some kind of mastique, akin to Indian tulwars, or was the tang damaged badly and the only way to fix it was with some kind of black steel epoxy? My original Khazar's tang was broken ( the seller was negligent) and I had to use a little bit of that epoxy to secure broken ends. It holds well, and the color matches the tannate solution, so I am ( almost) OK with it. I guess that 1300 years from now we will look worse than that. Some plastic surger-ized celebrities look worse even now, when they are still alive.
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