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Originally Posted by colin henshaw
Hi Iain
Good looking sword - a scarcer variant. There is one with a similar profile shown in the book "Waffen aus Zentral-Afrika" by Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt 1985, page 103. That one has a French blade and is described as being from North Cameroon...
Perhaps the blade on your example is a native copy ??
Regards.
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Hi Colin, I've got the same book, I'd discounted the locally made European sabre copy idea because those tend to be fullered. Here's one a friend owns:
http://takouba.org/catalog/index.php/peoples/takouba-73
That one is pretty clearly inspired by items like the French blades. This one... I'm not so sure!