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19th November 2024, 03:46 AM
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Might be Italian.
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19th November 2024, 05:48 PM
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my new 21st century, 2024, shiny unpatenated one comes close. scabbard not quite as nice tho.
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20th November 2024, 07:51 PM
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28th November 2024, 12:46 AM
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The Victorians made high quality copies back then. Some even collect them in their own right.
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30th November 2024, 11:29 PM
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A friend of mine was making and selling them, as honest replicas, at the end of the 20thC.
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3rd December 2024, 12:32 AM
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David that's great! Honest people are hard to find.........
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10th December 2024, 11:30 PM
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I rather wish I had bought one from him at the time. Mainly sold to young ladies in reenactment societies.
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