I wrotte in the San Martín sabre thread. I´m Yataghan there. I only saw the thinny picture of the sabre, but a week latter, in other place, I saw a reproduction. It was made as a mameluke shamshir. The point of the hilt is VERY different from the one you can see on the unclear picture posted in the thread. Without good pictures, an authentic story and a metallurgical analysis made public, one can only make very wide (and wild) speculations.
It is not difficult to know the details of the buttons, if you speak spanish. Marcial, on that forum, knows very well the buttons, and also, you can communicate with Abel throught the forum. If you open a thread, I´m sure you will find several people who can add rich contributions. Some plateros (silversmiths) knows very well the schools and the type of buttons. There is a subfora there dedicated to the silversmithing. They make sheats and hilts just like the ones you see here, in this thread, and some of the silversmiths also have a good knowledge of the button styles. Marcial is a bladesmith, not a researcher, but he has made some research and knows very well the old and new criollo blades. I can give you my modest support to help you with your thread over there. Abel is semiretired from the forum because he´s in the last stages of the publication of his last book, about folder knives, but we can send him an invitation to participate. I don´t know any other serious research about this subject. In fact, I think I´m going to send him a message with a link to this thread.
My regards
Gonzalo
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