Sword ID Help Needed

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

I have been looking at this and felt I had no idea where it has come from. I will have a guess that it is from Africa. North Africa possibly even parts of West Africa. Something about the leather. The chape looks very North African. To me it does not appear Asian.

I'm with you Tim. It seems I saw a cover page of a magazine, possibly U.S. News and World Report about 8 or 9 years ago (buried in my files of course), with a rebel soldier from Sierra Leone holding a sabre of some similarity.
Of course the wordwork grip replicates the grips on early 19th century British cavalry sabres, with certain licence.


All the best,
Jim