Zig-Zag Ladder Pattern

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Talked with Leo by phone before the Butterfield auction and Zig Zag pattern was a topic as I had sent him photo's of one, was a shallow curved shamshir, with wootz wrapped over an iron core, there were many areas where the wootz was worn enough to show the core, the zig zag pattern was a shallower angle pattern than this example. Leo never had an example of a zig zag pattern but knew of them, can remember him having the opinion of them being very rare. Can also remember us specualting that the iron core was possibly an early type of manufacture, but there was no research for this.

Congragulations on getting an example of this....

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