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Originally Posted by estcrh
you will notice the scabbard tip with has a small bridge to protect the chape. Both the pala and yatagan chapes have this feature as well as another pala which is posted below as well.
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This feature is common to most of the Turkish scabbards, I have the same on an Ottoman/ Turkish scabbard.
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Originally Posted by estcrh
So were Syrian artists actively doing this type of work on Ottoman sword scabbards without being credited for it?
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I don't know the style is very close to some Qajar works, but its clearly something from the East, Ottoman Syrian maybe... There is another example in the very bad book "Antique swords and daggers" (only useful for photographs).
A last point, finally I do not think that your yatagan is Greek. Please, look at Elgood, the Greek style is very particular. Your yatagan should be Balkans or even Turkish, but not Greek.