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Old 26th May 2015, 10:25 PM   #1
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Old 27th May 2015, 08:46 AM   #2
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Love the sandwich!
It really is an oddly effective way of mounting blades and is quite sturdy. A few more I have/had like this...
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Old 29th May 2015, 05:43 PM   #3
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The French source arrived (Touareg ahaggar - collections ethnographiques du musée du bardo. Reliure inconnue). For completeness in the thread I thought I'd post an image of the sword in the book. A very near match for mine and almost entirely the same in the mount and hilt design.
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