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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
PS.....that display grouping is MUSEUM grade!
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145: hinese: Chinese whotsit?
146: Turkish 'scimitar' - They did not use anything like that, in spite of Indiana Jones. Renaissance painters assumed Christians used curved swords like that. They didn't. European falchions sometimes did tho.
147: Dao - Actually a nepali 'Kora', sharp on the inside of the curve.
148: Sailor's Cutlass: What they heck is that?
19c Museums & authors were not the most accurate entities.