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Originally Posted by ariel
Whatever it is, it is not a fighting implement. Real fighting axes have heavy, triangle-configured, blades. Otherwise, they are totally useless as practical weapons.
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Except for all the fighting axes that aren't made that way, which still managed to be practical weapons, like the Dane axe, bardiche, bullova, Bronze age Vietnamese axes, etc. Large 2-handed axes, especially, tend to be thin-bladed.
Tirri has a whole page of thin-bladed axes described as "war axes" (pg 333), followed by a few more pages with more thin-bladed battle-axes.
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Originally Posted by ariel
My take: Qajar or even later, tourist item.
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Likely enough.