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RSWORD · 26th January 2006, 04:32 PM

It is most probably a piece mounted up in Syria with all new fittings and koftgari utilizing an older Shamshir blade. Hard to tell the coloration of the blade in the pictures but the wootz pattern seems typical of Syrian/Turkish wootz.

26th January 2006, 04:32 PM	#4
RSWORD Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Greensboro, NC Posts: 1,086	It is most probably a piece mounted up in Syria with all new fittings and koftgari utilizing an older Shamshir blade. Hard to tell the coloration of the blade in the pictures but the wootz pattern seems typical of Syrian/Turkish wootz.