...thank you, very interesting.
It's so important to see the examples of kaskara which have been in Regimental Museums for so long - they serve as dating touchstones.
I think that they might have been captured in the subsequent Campaign in the Sudan since at Tel El Kebir the Egyptians were a regular army - many of whom were later deployed with Baker and Hicks.
Notice that the "moons" are quite well defined - not the squiggles we see on later blades.
Is it possible that the "wire" is in fact very fine twisted leather?
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