(To moderator I already purchased this item. Am putting in link from ebay. If this is wrong, feel free to delete entire post.)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=221024886648
Dear friends, I recently had the pleasure of purchasing this on eBay from Major Tomm.
Fascinating item. Handle is shorter than is customary for a salawar yataghan, aka khyber sword, yet the blade is 3 to 4 inches longer than is usual for such blades.
The blade has a series of interesting marks, am not sure if they are an attempt to replicate old European hall markings or not.
Animal head on pommel is another unusual feature.
Blade has the T spine, but the T structure is less pronounced, and a bit shallower than the other, more typical khyber sword I own.
Even arrived with a quite good scabbard that is probably not original but still very well made. Scabbards suffer a lot of wear and tear and sword scabbards, being much longer than knife scabbards would likely incur very much harder use as tips project out and likely to hit hard on rocks as wearer walks by. A wood core scabbard would probably have more and eventualy splitstress from the greater weight of a sword blade, making original scabbards very difficult to come by.
A most interesting beast.