Interesting Takouba

[Jim McDougall]

This does seem like a southern type, and the brass coverings have been lost, and very timely post (see 'My Haladie' thread) as we are discussing the 'cross pollination' of kaskara and takouba in singular cases. As you have noted, the rounded tip is characteristic for takouba blades, very much in accord with Omani kattara type blades, which incidentally often seem to have strong association with these North African broadsword blades.
This unusually long blade with 'spear point' seems lilkely to be a blade of the form typically mounted in kaskara, however, as noted in the haladie thread, there is evidence that these blades moved westward with nomadic traffic or trade in apparantly limited number.

I received my newsletter from the Arms and Armour Society, and look forward to hearing more on your presentation on the kaskara, and wish you all the best. It is quite an honor to be addressing this most esteemed society, and I am probably not alone in wishing I could attend.

All best regards,
Jim