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>>54363438
The older European stuff is very underappreciated, production methods were similar to what the Japanese used later, the problem we got is that a European Katana equivalent will have spent 1000 years in the ground before we we were able to look at it.
And polishing them to even be able to see the pattern of the metal was considered a no-go by archeologists and therefor research very recent on the subject.
Pic related is what you end up with if yo send a 1500 year old German EDC utility-knife to a Japanese sword-polisher.