Interesting attempt at script on this one, an amalgam of in Solingen then in Alemania (=same thing) then Fabrica etc.
This is a M1796 British cavalry blade with spurious inscription which seems odd as this would hardly pass as legitimate.
As always as well noted by Martin......the anomalies in blades mounted in these Ethiopian gurades much as throughout Red Sea entrepots are infinite. This extends to so many ethnographic cultural situations.
These M1796 blades, while typically marked on the back of the blade with makers name, seem to have been produced in volume as 'blanks' in some cases.
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