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Old 8th April 2018, 08:14 PM   #14
fernando
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Originally Posted by ariel
... But this is a Tanjore katar commonly attributable to 16 century with a triangular form. One cannot have any other fullering...
I warned you i might be talking nonsense ; notwithstanding that i was more foccusing on the fullers convergence as being an aesthetical option; i realized that even in the katar they could as well just fade away instead of all meeting together.

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Originally Posted by ariel
... We are talking about later swords, don’t we?
The swords yes but, as you know, nimcha blades can be rather early ones; and at the end of the day, it is more plausible that the blade of yours is European, as it seems to happen all the time.
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