Hello,
yes it really look like ! I think you nailed it !
Do you know what's the size of this old dibble ?
If mine is an old 17th-18th dibble it's ok for me,
( first as I wrote , I hesitate to post it in the miscelania forum)
not so glorious as a katar
but many weapons in martial arts come from peasant tools at first ...
For the ''poor maniability'' argument about ''no'' EARLY form of katar possibility
I just wanted to show you this old pata sword coming from the MET, 17th century with no side bars at all...
Wonderful but really difficult to handle no !?
Kind regards