Ian,
I would like to thank you very much for posting this wonderfully detailed material on these swords, and how as regulation military and civil swords they often paralleled their ethnographic counterparts. It seems that often civil and para military or police swords present challenges in proper identification as they fall into grey areas of patterns and known forms.
I recall a paper titled something like klewang vs. the M1917 US Navy cutlass but cannot relocate.
Amuk and CC, thank you as well for your great input!
It is very much appreciated to have such material added into the ever growing archived resources here, which stand as important research material for study.
Jim
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