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Old 23rd September 2012, 05:54 PM   #4
Iain
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Originally Posted by Congoblades
Thanks Iain. Intresting point of view, this make sence. the sword was pretty thin and flexible, not really battleready, but then there was this stamp... lol
It was collected in the early seventies in the Sahel.
It's not from a friend, I wanted to buy it but didn'nt, lucky me
Best idea I have at the moment. This happens on takouba and kaskara from the 20th century on. Any piece of good steel was used and recycled into everything from swords to arm daggers. Thin and flexible is not a bad thing for a takouba.

1970s sounds exactly right for how this looks. Pretty typical sword and usually very easy to find takouba of this quality.
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