Thanks for the help. Do you/can you give me a link to that forum post?, where the "heart shaped" blade was discussed?
Its pretty obvious this was made for the tourist trade; otherwise, why stamp it in english complete with a bizarre ampersand.
Definitely made for outsiders.
Many of these tourist blades I think, would have to resemble some ethnic blade of local use, i.e. machetes from So. America, kindals from the Caucusses etc.
So my questions are; what was this used for?, and when was it made?
Did it really come FROM Kollam?, or could it be a fake tourist blade?? representing something from the 19th cen. tourist trade?
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