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					Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
					
				 
				Search for "Swords in the Deccan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" on Google, go to the MET's homepage, and you can download the book (I think) as a PDF file. 
			
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 Thank you all for the reference! and the link!
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					Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
					
				 
				It could also be European and decorated later in India - it is not easy to tell from a picture. 
			
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 Why not, but the decoration is going right under the rivets and the pata.