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| | Ethnographic Arms & Armour - Polish???? Karabela |
 | | It is possible they were made or remade in Poland as well, anyway some of the scholars used to link this sabres as Polish. |
 | | Handle made of different kinds of semiprecious stones or buffalo fl horn, wood, ivory, with three rivets, decorated with curved lines, narrowing towards the quillon. |
 | | middle of 17th century, it has European blade, persian-like quillons (as in group A), but there is problem with rivets - I can see only two instead of four or three at least. |
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