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Originally Posted by Richard G
Thank you for these pictures,
To be honest, if it were not for the provenance, I would have suspected the first two swords of being chinese versions of a Gulf saif. I am sure you will disagree with me but, it seems almost as if the originator is now imitating the imitator!.
Regards
Richard
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that is very true, Richard! these are mediocre quality swords, their better ones look much better and I will make a publication about it very soon. They copy Chinese, Indian and even Russian concepts in their decoration and you see some interesting results (some is just too gaudy though)
Lotfy