Hi Tim,
It could be like you write, but I doubt it very much. Had it been so, I think they would have made a greater effort when writing the letters. There is another reason why I don’t think so, a reason which you could not know, and that is the blade, it has a chevron pattern but the pattern is a bit uneven, and I don’t think you would used such a blade for presentation. Remember that the hilt and the blade do not necessarily come from the same place – they could have, but not necessarily. Here is the whole tulwar, notice that the chevron pattern does not start until a bit down the blade.
One other thing, the blade has an armoury mark at the back - the mark (meaning K/Ka/Kha) and the number 33.
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