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Old 21st March 2012, 11:59 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by fernando
No real distraction; not so distant from the thread topic. Besides,Takouba blades do have a nostalgic European flavour .
They definitely do, just like the stocks of Turkish matchlock and miquelet guns, as well as those of Indian matchlock guns (and the mechanisms of the latter) carry on the early 16th c. North European tradition!

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