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Originally Posted by Mercenary
There are handles that are very simply decorated, with poorly made inscriptions often with errors and missing characters. Such inscriptions always start with "Shri Baldev Ji Sahai" but what's next doesn't matter.
In the best case it is possible that such swords belonged to the rajah's servants or officers.
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Surely there are very poorly made hilts with spurious inscriptions, but this one looks very well made... at least from the photos we have.
So this definitely doesn't look like a servant sword hilt.
