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Old 13th March 2020, 06:28 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Yvain
Thank you for those informations Teodor ! I hoped it was an old one but I wasn't really sure.

Do we have any idea why those european markings were being copied ? Did it gave the blade more monetary value, or did it have some symbolic fuction ?
Native copies of European markings is a big topic. The short answer is that European markings became popular in various places around the world where European blades were exported to, and were later copied locally in an effort to signify quality.
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