Nidhin,
I don’t think the blade has been rehilted, and if it hasn’t, it is not a Bikaner blade, then it is a blade from the south, with a Bikaner armoury marking.
When you look at many of the weapons with this mark, they do not all origin from Bikaner, but they come from many different places – a lot of them from the south. There were, in the earlier days, many wars where whole armouries were emptied by the winner, and the weapons taken into the winners armoury – sometimes they were marked, sometimes not.
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