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|  22nd March 2018, 06:13 PM | #18 | 
| (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal 
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			I am extremely pleased i was not counting with such contribution from all of you Gentlemen. May i add that: I understand when Kubur says that there is a consistency between (the decoration of) hilts and scabbards. And may i say that, definitely the blade is not chromed or nickled, but highly polished. I take it that my jeweler friend and the silver smith we went to straighten up the hilt langet would have noticed that. The first confirmed this morning that the blade is polished and the second has discussed with me the methods to "unpolish" it ...not to "unchrome" it. . | 
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