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Old 24th September 2019, 04:26 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
... It is hard to say if the Italians had a big export of sword blades, but I am sure they did export these blades to India...
Well Jens, all those bundles of blades taken by the Portuguese (firangi) for trade in India, were in fact of Italian manufacture.
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