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Old 13th December 2020, 08:40 AM   #8
mariusgmioc
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Originally Posted by Battara
I was thinking this was Turkish wootz. Persian wootz I thought was more distinctive than this.
Now the structure is washed out because of wear. In some areas is completely worn out.

You can definitely be right but that will become only clearer after a new and proper etching of the blade.

When I said that it looks Persian to me, I based my assertion on the shape of the watering streaks (with rather long directional portions, somehow similar to the ones of the kard below).
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