Well the tenegre has arrived with a few nice surprises.
All of the decorative fittings on the hilt are silver except for the guard and
it seems to be a brass alloy of some kind. There are quite a
few of the silver decorations on the hilt missing but for everyone that is missing
the corresponding one is still intact. The decorations on the scabbard
are mostly brass with a few being made of silver and I believe the missing
band at the throat of the scabbard would have been made of silver. The wood
of the scabbard has shrunk so much over the years that
the guard will not fit into place anymore and the brass bands are very loose
and are just put into place for the pictures. It looks like I will be
busy for quite some time making the missing pieces of silver
decorations for the hilt and scabbard but it will be time well spent.
Sorry about the poor picture quality.
Robert
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