Original 19th Century Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Three-Piece Horn Grip Antique Percussion Firearms Kerama Retto and Okinawa

Kerama Retto and Okinawa

There is a bit of overall wear and spots of fouling and oxidation

leather backed chin scales

36" seven groove rifling

which when removed is a tapered threaded rod

Original 19th Century Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Three-Piece Horn Grip Antique Percussion Firearms Kerama Retto and OkinawaOriginal Item: One of a Kind. These very unusual swords with very very curved blades come from the "Horn of Africa," which includes Abyssinia, which we now know as Ethiopia. Made famous just before WWII by the Italian Invasion of that Country, and the appeal by it's Emperor Haile Selassie to the League of Nations, which the Western Powers basically ignored. It's Capital is ADDIS ABABA, a city dating back some 2,000 years and more. A Country much in