Pata sword with European blade

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

The blade is a North African blade known in Saharan regions as 'masri' ..

This is extremely interesting, it could mean that these European blades came from Egypt, maybe via Alexandria...

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

The fact that many of these are thus found in Indian swords, usually pata, suggests that somehow, most likely the result of post Omdurman situations, a considerable number of African blades ended up in Southern India.

I think that one of your first post was correct: a lot of fakes were made from the relics of the British colonial empire: Sudan & India... Then of course, Indians imported European trade blades.