Wow! That is absolutely amazing and resoundingly pertinant Norman!!!!
This is pretty much the exact type trade blade which we are discussing on the concurrent 'nimcha' thread, and shows these blades as being produced in Solingen well into the 19th century. The term is fascinating as well, and seems closely associated to 'machete' which of course is the sword form which evolved in the America's as the utilitarian arm used to work through thick vegetation.
I think this plate or one like it appears in Gilkerson's "Boarders Away" as well.
Thank you for adding this! The rather degenerated GR with crown in the attached picture gives the thought, or wonder, if perhaps that marking configuration might be the source, in stylized form in the strange markings often found on kaskara.
All the best,
Jim
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