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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4344390, member: 72790&quot;]I love your &quot;pugio&quot;. I have seen the sword blades from Luristan before but never a pugio or sicca. This is from Luristan, Persia, is it not? Do you know if at one time there was wood around the handle or was it always bare metal and is the metal bronze? If not, if it is some other metal, usually iron, but if not bronze, and it is iron, it would be a rare find. I have a Luristan arrow head and spear point elsewhere, not illustrated in my photo, and I have often wondered why they are reasonable as ancient weapons. I think that they were a kind of pre Iron Age Persian manufacture and bronze preserves much better than iron. If yours is iron it may be from a dry climate region where rust was not so much of a problem. Looks great, whatever it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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