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Old 11th June 2019, 05:47 PM   #18
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Hard to say, they've been around a while. Mine is apparently early 20c where there was a revival of popularity & some officers carried them on parade. I'm fairly sure it's polish tho the inscription is in latin. Wiki, notoriously inaccurate has a listing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karabela that indicated it's use in Poland to to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish...n_Commonwealth but it as noted here was used elsewhere much earlier. Hopegully somone acn help pin it down.
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