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Old 31st August 2014, 01:49 AM   #3
Robert
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Many Filipinos did board and sail on Spanish galleons for 400 years.
I don't think that this piece is quite that old, but there was a Philippine Revolutionary Navy in 1898. Possibly this might/could have belonged to one of its members? Someone else has suggested that this might have been made to be used from horseback for making slashing cuts.

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