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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
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Commerce was always anxious for opportunity to exploit the exotica of the colonial places the super powers occupied, so the production of native weaponry in their own styles was not surprising.
In actuality, after the campaigns in the Sudan, Birmingham was producing numbers of 'souveniers' such as 'native 'spear heads etc. for the souks there to supply the quest for these by occupying forces. Actually they had been producing such material as mail armor for the Khedives forces much prior to Omdurman.
For America, the legendary Bowie knife ended up with considerable volume of them in America being produced in Sheffield, England.
There are almost too many instances of these kinds of commercial production of 'indiginous' or nationally attributed forms made in other countries to even touch on here. The point is however, well noted, and another often perplexing factor in the conundrums of identifying these arms.
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Absolutely Jim , well summarised .