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17th September 2005, 05:39 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: GA USA
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I have one with the same characteristc. It looks armour piercing. I think they are Mandingo based on the hilt decorations, but yours and mine very old.
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17th September 2005, 05:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Hungary
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Nice dagger, even as I prefer more curved ones. The 4.5mm thickness is interesting for me though - isn't it a bit too thin? What kind of mail would it be used against?
And the edges seem too paralell to me, especially compared to the steel one. Is it for backing up the weakness of the material, or for delivering good cuts as well as thursts? You like mail-piercers very much, do you? 
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17th September 2005, 06:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: What is still UK
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Yeah!
 I use the term mail piercing more as style to give an idea of the strength of the blade, untill Bill Gates and his crew make a glove that can send pressure feeling through a PC. Mandingo is a good source of origin, you only have to look in some learned journals from the 1960s 70s and 80s when swords from this area were still being labelled Sudanese. Tim
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