What you have is a Persian trade blade and there is a high probability that the blade is wootz. Very nice crossguard. What to do with it is quite a personal preference but it could be restored in that the blade and guard can be professionally polished to bring out the wootz and a proper grip scale with pommel can be created to really bring it back to some former glory. Many would leave as it is. The long inscription panel roughly translates, "There is no might, nor will, save with God, the exalted, the Almighty". On the opposite side, the smaller cartouche reads "Oh fulfiller of needs". There is a large myriad of blade shapes, curvatures, fullering, quality of wootz, quality of chiseling, and style of mount that fall within this Persian trade blade category.
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