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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
The blade is a North African blade known in Saharan regions as 'masri' ..
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This is extremely interesting, it could mean that these European blades came from Egypt, maybe via Alexandria...
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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
The fact that many of these are thus found in Indian swords, usually pata, suggests that somehow, most likely the result of post Omdurman situations, a considerable number of African blades ended up in Southern India.
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I think that one of your first post was correct: a lot of fakes were made from the relics of the British colonial empire: Sudan & India... Then of course, Indians imported European trade blades.