B.I.
The kard is still as fantastic as when you showed it the first time, and should I comment on it, I would look like a clown waiting to be coloured
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I will however do it anyway. You wrote on the other thread: ‘also, by pure speculation from an image, without holding the piece, the persian work on the hilt just reminds me of late 18thC work, and not of the period stated.’
The story you have just told, could be the reason for, why the hilt looks like it does.
Jens