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Originally Posted by S.Al-Anizi
Beautiful Piece Teodor,
A certain private collection in Abu Dhabi contains at least 4 of these swords that I have seen, all sporting wootz blades.
I suspect that many of these were longer once and became shorter due to re-hilting IMO.
Cheers!
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Thank you! As Robert Hales illustrates on p. 361 of his book, extensive rehilting was common for these swords. This could have led to slight shortening.