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Old 9th October 2023, 01:54 PM   #1
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Default Hwi, gubasa, akrafena?

I picked up the top three west African (Dahomey?) ceremonial swords for the price of one Italian pizza at a local restaurant each. They are not sharpened and could be tourist pieces, but they look an awful lot like the 1930s ceremonial Hwi and Gubasa swords from the Ghana/Togo/Benin area featured elsewhere on this forum (and on at least one well known antique arms vendor's site who shall not be named I spotted an extremely similar sword for sale for about 66x what I paid for these ).
Also shown (bottom) is an (Ashanti?) akrafena sword that I've had since last year.
Your comments would be welcome.
Will add detailed pics of each sword in separate replies.

EDIT: Related thread(s):

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23002
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