obviously the date could have been applied in later time. However, may be it is because of my limited knowledge, but do you have evidence in other kaskaras with these these decorations? Is there any silver inserts in the Sudanese or Egyptian swords of the XVII-XIX century? You sure have more experience than me. On the other hand also the guarda and the forniture could have been remounted on an older blade. Surely not easy to solve the problems. We add information after informationand may be in the future we shall be able to solve the problem
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