The give away is of course that it is for all practical purposes identical . Something that would be impossible achieved by hand forging and chiseling. It has to have been fabricated by casting, probably using the lost wax process. Having said that it is a quality thing not easy or cheap to produce. Seventeenth century it isn't so it has to be a nineteenth historical revival fantasy. Deserves to be appreciated in its own right as part of the history arms and armour collecting.
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