The blade on this is not a "good blade" the sword is a concept similar to the
jibbeh of the pious that were designed to show the qualities of an ascetic, a beggar in virtuous poverty, newly made with tears and patches and crude stitching. The rebellion was above all a religious movement. This weapon if we can call it that, is a symbol of rank for a noncombatant in the physical sense, more like a political officer in the soviet army of ww2, the first to get the chop. The owner of a sword like this would have been as I mentioned before; a cleric or an orator, a military cheer leader so to speak, only without the legs. How many real peasants had a sword of any kind especially one that does not work and covered with expensive etching. So the idea of a good or bad blade some how misses the point a little.
