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|  5th February 2021, 02:50 PM | #1 | 
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			Agree with Colin, modern Indian hilt, crude machine work, the material is Aventurine quartz, but  they call every green stone a jade of course   | 
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|  5th February 2021, 04:17 PM | #2 | 
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			Alex and Colin are certainly right. The hilt of modern work.
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|  5th February 2021, 06:07 PM | #3 | 
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			Thank you for your comments. That's certainly why the starting price was hopefully low... Yes the hilt shows aventurescence on some parts of the hilt, crazy indeed, it was the principal lot in the double page catalogue describing 20-30 other lots, with a large picture of the hilt and described as jade hilt and 19th century... sure I didn't believe it was a mughal period hilt or made of thick jade jadeite hilt but at least something correct... for the sudanese blade idea, it can be, I found looks like on oriental arms ( not the flat tourist blades, this one is half cm thick and well sharpened ) So it ''must'' be arabic, any idea about the date/signature ?? | 
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|  5th February 2021, 07:06 PM | #4 | |
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  There is no signature on the blade, the date is not in Arabic, it looks like 1990 (?) | |
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|  5th February 2021, 07:52 PM | #5 | 
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			yes it is 1990 and it is a recent Sudanese blade sorry francatolin...   | 
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|  5th February 2021, 08:10 PM | #6 | 
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			1990...    Ok, It's done ! I'll try to sell it... Thank you for your time and comments | 
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|  14th February 2021, 08:23 PM | #7 | 
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			it may look like the date 1990 but its the word الخرطوم Khartoum upside down.
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