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Originally Posted by francantolin
Thank youbfor your message TVV,
yes it can be a shortened shashka blade,
I rarely seen shashka blade with such Ã* large yelman
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How about a broken blade not a cut down one? Is there evidence of a scarf weld where the blade joins the hilt? I have read that some Caucasian cultures carried a second shorter blade as a backup often repurposed from a broken blade.