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					Originally Posted by ariel
					
				 
				Is this one also Russian? 
			
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 I would say at face value, and without referring to museum notes, the one above Ariel was made in the Balkan states as a diplomatic gift to Russian nobility...but detail on the scabbard seems to be a non Balkan hand?
I suspect the one in discussion originally is perhaps closer to Spain that Russia.
Gavin