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			As per pics, I do think it is wootz, but a very simple and quite crude one. Not Persian for sure, but Ottoman, one of the many Middle Eastern “Turkish” varieties of Sham that are remembered only by exotic names, but have no defined characteristics. 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	The dark areas are thick, short and far away from each other.  | 
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