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Originally Posted by broadaxe
These are mostly Sudanese Mehdi period arms, made in the Ottoman and Persian style. They look 'almost' as good, the steel is decent, but the tumb-print is the very light silver koftgari that dades away easily. Good koftgari of a similar theme & technique usualy indicates a recent made.
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An interesting idea, if this is true then they are certainly not recently made, that time period would date them to the late 1800s.
Here is another similar war pick.