Saqr, thanks a lot for your comments. I cannot really see inside the scabbard, but the hilt is constructed of two pieces of wood, with leather lining between them and the tang, and then bound together with wire, over which the leather has been stretched and sewn with a seam on the back. I have no doubt that the cover leather is quite new, and as for the wood, it looks old and patinated, so it might be the original hilt with new leather.
Do you know (or perhaps you wonder just as I do, looking at your thread about Omani seifs), when was the switch in preferences made from broadswords to sabre blades? And why did Omanis import sabre blades all the way from Central Europe, instead of Persia or India for example?
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