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			The "Dolphin head" on the scabbard indeed tilts the attribution toward Ottoman empire/Balkans. 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	But the contour of the handle and the thin " tsuba"-like guard somehow remind me of Tonkin Vietnam.  | 
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