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Thor B
Location: Norway Joined: 10 May 2018
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 Posted: Sun 13 May, 2018 12:05 pm Post subject: Touareg sword ? |
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Hi
Can anybody tell me anything about this sword? It was bought by my dad sometime in the 70s.
Thanks
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Lee O'Hagan
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Hi Thor,
Looks to be some form of Kaskara sword
could well be a carry back tourist type piece, hard to tell from just a couple of pics,
but a few things look that way,
fullers, guard, etc,
be nice to be wrong though,
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Ralph Grinly
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From the pics..it *looks* like an original 19th C "trade Blade" reused in a fairly correct tourist piece ? Nicely done 
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Sa'ar Nudel
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| Ralph Grinly wrote: | | From the pics..it *looks* like an original 19th C "trade Blade" reused in a fairly correct tourist piece ? Nicely done |
To my eyes as well.
The sword is a Saharan Touareg Takouba.
Curator of Beit Ussishkin, regional nature & history museum, Upper Galilee.
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Thor B
Location: Norway Joined: 10 May 2018
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| Posted: Mon 14 May, 2018 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Thanks chaps. So, it seems the piece may in fact be a pretty decent one. Good thing we didn`t abuse it when I eas a kid (as we did with the tourist arab one)
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