Ugly koummya / nice old blade

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by francantolin

It's just that the ferrule was just fixed with a single brass nail
( easy to take off )
And I wonder why the ''nice blade holes'' were hidden by this ferrule who has a lot of bad repairs and welding ( as on the scabbard...)

One nail is normal.
You are right the ferrule was repaired too, only half is original.

The blade holes are partly hidden, and this is normal with your koummya.
They had to fix the imported blades to the hilts.
Look at my hanzer koummya, half of the stamp is under the ferrule. And I have seen many of them like that.
Your blade is Spanish, my blade is French but I have some koummya with English blades (again half of the maker's name under the ferrule).