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30th October 2006, 07:16 PM
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Thank you good fellows.
Very interesting to read what you have to say indeed. Alot is learned. Thank you again 
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31st October 2006, 06:36 AM
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that sewing of leather on the scabbard in the first pictures looks nice is it common on weapons?
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31st October 2006, 06:59 AM
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Location: California
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scabbard stitching
The leather covering and its stitching on this specimen looks new, based on its style and the rather smooth and clean condition of the surface. Antique scabbards from this part of the Middle East (Arabian Peninsula, and the Ottoman Empire) are typically covered with a type of leather with a granular, bumpy texture to it (the hide is usually from the donkey), the seam stitched with fine brass or silver wire in tight coils.
My experience with these Zanzibar sabers is that the seam is frequently glued. On the better examples, the leather is quite thin, and is carefully tooled to conform to delicate ribbing and other designs incised into the wooden scabbard body. |
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