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Old 29th September 2018, 02:30 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Mercenary
I did not see the sword. It is an item from catalog. And now we will never know if it is the Indian blade (Marius said it and I fully agree with him having only this photo) with a beauteful artistic picture that is NOT an imitation of European mark but just a magnificent creature of Indian art. Now it is forever "English blade" with a never existed "fox's mark".
Mercenary, I have spent the last two days going through my books and online searches for a similar "fox" mark and found nothing. There is a little information on the European Armoury forum about the "fox" marks on British swords, but none of those associated marks looks like what you show on the mystery sword. I think your conclusion is correct--this is not a British mark and blade, but an Indian one with an Indian mark.

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