Ariel, your bad feelings are well justified. Both items have new silver work (on obviously old wootz blades). And by new I mean "YESTERDAY". This type of work is typical of what I have seen when I was in Damascus. My only comment is that I do NOT think the silver work on both shamshir and dagger scabbards deserves a high praise. I have seen much!!! way much better, and for the same $. 99.9% are made NOW in Damascus for Qatar and Saudi markets, so you'll not see it on E-Bay
