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TVV · 30th October 2018, 07:53 PM

Here is a link to a relatively long thread on these:

http://vikingsword.com/vb/showthread...6&page=1&pp=30

I understand that long threads can be somewhat tedious to read, so here is a summary of the relevant facts:
1. In post #56 you will see a machete in the Museo del Ejercito in Toledo, identified there as from the Dominican Republic.
2. Throughout the thread you will see that sometimes these machetes have inscriptions in Spanish, a few of which reference the Dominican Republic and one even a particular district within the Dominican Republic.

It is fun to speculate what may have happened within the Spanish colonial empire and Spanish sphere of cultural influence, but so far there has been no factual evidence of these machetes produced in the Maghreb, or even ever used there.

30th October 2018, 07:53 PM	#11
TVV Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bay Area Posts: 1,598	Here is a link to a relatively long thread on these: http://vikingsword.com/vb/showthread...6&page=1&pp=30 I understand that long threads can be somewhat tedious to read, so here is a summary of the relevant facts: 1. In post #56 you will see a machete in the Museo del Ejercito in Toledo, identified there as from the Dominican Republic. 2. Throughout the thread you will see that sometimes these machetes have inscriptions in Spanish, a few of which reference the Dominican Republic and one even a particular district within the Dominican Republic. It is fun to speculate what may have happened within the Spanish colonial empire and Spanish sphere of cultural influence, but so far there has been no factual evidence of these machetes produced in the Maghreb, or even ever used there.