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Old 27th March 2009, 04:02 PM   #2
Jim McDougall
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Thats really an interesting item Lew. The scabbard looks Tuareg, but the single edge blade seems reprofiled at the tip, and the hilt ? Now there's an anomaly ....reminds me of a shashka, but overall seems like one of the Bedouin swords from Sinai and further east.

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