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EAAF Staff
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Posts: 7,345
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Could the blade originally be Russian in origin? They did do laminated steel. I am having difficulty seeing if the inscription remnants are Cyrillic or Arabic.
If Arabic, then this could indeed be an old Ottoman shamshir blade reshaped for French(?) use. |
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