Here are my two pipe back blades. One is completely from India, the other pattern is a French AN 9 with an ultra high quality non-European blade from Turkey or India.
The AN9 is from very early 19th ct. the Tulwar is unknown, probably somewhere in the 19th ct..
As far as I know the inventors of the pipe back blade are the Ottomans, maybe as the well known Pala-sword.
These blades has been made in Ottoman Empire, India and Europe. They were highly desired in Europe from the early to mid 19th ct..
Roland
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