Hi Kai,
Do you know if the blade has a tang?
True what you write that the blade has a bit Kopis/Soussan Patta/Yatagan to it. The blade seems to be rather short, do you think it can have been broken close to the hilt?
You write that you got it from the Hyderabad region. Do you mean Hyderabad in Sind or in Deccan?
Somewhere in one of my books I think I have a picture of a blade like yours, I will have to have a look. The bird on the hilt could be a parrot, but it could also be a hawk or a falcon, it is hard to say, but it is true that they often used a parrot.
Jens
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