Kaskara for Comment...

[Iain]

Originally Posted by stephen wood

I am going to be giving another talk on Kaskaras at the Arms and Armour Society meeting in February next year.

Good to see you posting after a while Stephen. I hope that after your talk you'll be able to share it with the forum. Didn't you give one some years ago?

While my focus is on the other side of the Sudan, I am always intrigued to see what others discover in their research of the kaskara. You've shown some pretty neat examples over the years!

[stephen wood]

...now it has arrived I think it's a native blade - a great deal of the shaping of the blade and guard has been done with files. Still, it's actually quite a good one and older than the grip and scabbard. Surely not 19th century though...