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I have looked around and have not found another sword and scabbard that match this one, the closest one is this Ottoman sword which also has a walrus ivory hilt.

Lot Description
AN OTTOMAN CHILD'S SWORD
SIGNED DAWUD, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 17TH CENTURY
The short curved blade with single-edged upper section and widened point with double-edge, gold overlay outlined gutter, small gold signature cartouche to one side, geometric lattice on side of forte, stained walrus-ivory hilt decorated with inset diamond botehs and gold inset stellar motifs with green enamelled centres, gold cross- guard and scabbard fittings engraved and nielloed on both sides with fine floral scrolls, inset turquoises on the end of the pommel and the quillons, scabbard of green velvet decorated with silver wire floral motifs with attached cultured pearls, engraved gold belt rings with attached string with glass beads, later replaced inset hardstones to the hilt and top of the scabbard, good condition
23in. (58.5cm.) long

The mounts on this elegant sword are decorated in nielloed silver in a style fashionable during the seventeenth century. A number of similarly decorated published pieces are stamped with a tughra of Mehmed IV (r. 1648-87) and some exist in European collections, having been taken as war booty from the Ottomans after the siege of Vienna in 1683. The pieces decorated in this style and stamped with Mehmed IV's tughra include two horse caparisons, daggers and spears (Bashir Mohamed, The Arts of the Muslim Knight. The Furusiyya Art Foundation Collection, Milan, 2007, no. 35, p.71). A number of examples which do not bear a tughra, but which can be dated with some accuracy on the basis of their dates of acquisition, are illustrated in Holger Schuckelt, Die Türckische Cammer. Sammlung orientalischer Kunst in der kurfürstlich-sächsischen Rüstkammer Dresden, exhibition catalogue, Dresden, 2010, no.254, p.249.