A question about boarding pikes

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So no one thinks I'm crazy about the "X" decorations-

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The one above worries me. African X designs on weapons? Could my piece be an African spear (not my area, but I've never seen one with diamond blade or wormy ash shaft, so???)


Here's a similar pattern on cutlass-
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...zilian+cutlass