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Originally Posted by Steve
Michael and Ibrahiim,
These photos and catalogue description ( which I finally retrieved from my i-phone) may be interesting to you. The sword is in the Wallace collection, London.
Steve
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Salaams, Thankyou Steven that is a great lead and superb picture from the Wallace. I am particularly interested in that turned down cup and incorpoated quillons arrangement as it is like the so called Saudia variant contained in the thread and echoes the Omani short battle sword whos date is under the microscope because some would put it as 10th Century. It makes sense that there is a Persian involvement since that is where the short sword entered the ARABIAN PENINSULAR from. Probably from the Greek and Roman shortsword influence . I wonder what the original blade was like(The Wallace shows a 17thC German blade ~ possibly a running wolf stamp there?) Thank you for the input... The plot thickens.