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7th January 2006, 11:36 AM
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(deceased)
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portugal
Posts: 9,694
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I humbly apologize for the delay in thanking your information.
Jens, your coments were precious. Thank you Jim, for all the tracks. I have been digging into my micro library, and i spotted quite a few katars and patas, giving a projection of the blades used in these weapons, namely the mahratas. Statisticaly european blades were preferred to local ones, with great incidence in patas. As i read that one of the Mahratas occupations was pushing out the europeans out of the territory, it is admissibile that european soldiers could be hit by mahrata warriors, using european blades. Ironicaly a portuguese could get killed by a pata with a blade inscribed " Long live Dom Joćo V King of Portugal". Such would be the case of a beautyfull 18th century pata shown in a book, which i would swear i once sent you a copy, by the time we swapped data on cup hilt swords. Thank you again and keep well, with all your beloved ones, into the new year. Kind regards fernando |
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