Seeking translation assistance on African Kaskara blade

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Originally Posted by kwiatek

the date 1202/1787-8, though this isn’t very clearly written and that would be a very early for a piece of this type I gather

I wish to have it in my collection too

I agree with Kwiatek the date is too early for a sword of this type.

It's not the date of the sword but rather a commemorative date, please look at this forum you will see other examples with commemorative dates...


http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...emorative+date

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...emorative+date

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...emorative+date