Hi Jens, yes we are still on '66' plotting our escape from blazing Arizona heat, in the new Bookmobile!!!
As far as I can say, this blade looks Solingen, but agree, hard to say more without handling or marks etc. Many Solingen blades were 'blanks' and shipped en masse to foreign markets. Such blades it does not seem were widely copied by Indian makers as they were so available it did not seem necessary.
I would point out that usually the single edged blades are referred to as backswords and double edged broadswords. However in earlier times into the 19th, the term broadsword was often used indiscriminately .
Solingen did not produce double edged blades for Scotland after 1745, but they did produce these kinds of single edged blades for British cavalry swords in the latter 18th c.
With the pata, just as with the khanda, the firangi blades would well have been used as available of course. In my opinion, the style of use of the pata would have typically favored the DE blade, and mounting one with this kind of blade simply a matter of availability.
As always I would defer on those observations to those here far better versed in these arms and their use. In any case, very nice looking pata!
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