Interesting Katar with chiseled blade for comment

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Thanks for the feedback thusfar. Jens, thank you for a reference to another example of a pierced katar blade. I don't have that reference yet but the example you quote sounds quite nice. The side bars on this example are quite plain. I suspect the blade is much older than the handle. Interesting thoughts on the parrot. My first thought was that these were peacocks.