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Old 16th January 2007, 06:01 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by spiral
Not quite the same detail of photo perhaps?

Tends to look like the stamps that are were made & used on British Indian Pieces.

Which possibly or to my way of understanding to date probably means it was issued to either British Indian Gurkhas,Dogras,Garhwali, kuamon or Burmese units in the early 20th century.

Do you like it? how long is the blade & what does it weigh?

Spiral
Yes I do like it. The blade is 14 1/4 inches and I don't have a scale that goes that high, but it weighs more than my 1917 MK ll pictured.

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