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Originally Posted by Oliver Pinchot
Specifically which examples?
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The MET sword. I had a look at Alexander excellent catalogue and he says that the blade is signed by Loft Ali Shirazi from the 18th c. but also with a cartouche of Nasir al din shah as you mentionned previously, from the 19th c.
The cartouches look very similar and its highly improbable that Nasir al din cartouche was added later...
A last point to add I had this kind of blade in my hands recently and the sword has very sharp edges, not like the acid etched ones who are purely decorative or for parade. I was just curious to know how many high quality blades like that are known in the world.