Southern California was a hotbed for collectors in the 60s and 70s! I grew up there in those days and among some of the venerable old collectors and dealers, there were very old collections coming out in estate sales and auctions in huge numbers. Further, and even more exciting, many of the older movie studios began to decaccess thier props and items used in films for many decades. In the early days, movie studios acquired huge volumes of authentic antique items, which in those days were just 'old junk'. This included incredibly many authentic old weapons, which were used in many of the swashbuckling and battle scenes in historically themed productions, now of course classics.
Rudolf Valentino himself became an enthusiastic sword collector, undoubtedly from the amazing examples that would often appear on the sets of his movies.
As noted, your kaskara appears thankfully to be untouched and as such, clearly static in collections or stored for quite some time. It is unclear exactly when this diamond type motif and the discoid pommels became popular, but we know they were in Darfur and at the time of Ali Dinar, who was killed by British forces in 1916. These apparantly became quite popular with Hadendoa and associated tribes in later years, but the style seems generally held to be from Darfur and Kordofan regions. The triple fuller blade is distinctly native in form, probably Hausa, and should have small crescent moons stamped at the base of the outside fullers.
All the best,
Jim
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