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Originally Posted by freebooter
The top one I can not see enough to say but the bottom one appears to have all the traits of 1970s Spain/Toledo to my eyes looking at the poor styles and colouring to the hilt. The blade also to my eye shows a rust patina peeking through a plated surface  |
Salaams freebooter, Not sure... could be... I thought the clossone'd hilt could be Algerian or Syrian. What we rightly regard as pretty poor quality swords sometimes had a particular role ... I believe wedding adornments for the groome and others as court swords. They were never serious weapons. Load of junk probably ~ and a touch of artistic licence from the souk man telling me, perhaps, what he thought I wanted to hear !
Regards Ibrahiim al Balooshi.