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					Originally Posted by fernando
					
				 
				C'mon David     
Let me put up some fantasy. Artists had their freedom ... more often towards exagerating than minimizing things. Just trying to justify myself     
			
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 Absolutely Nando, fantasize away…this is certainly a good thread for fantasy.  
 
…and i agree, a lion-headed pommel no more makes a sword a kasthana as a wavy blade makes a dagger a keris though i wouldn't count out that this sword may have been of a form that had some influence on the development of the kasthana as we know it.