To answer your other question if your Afghan scabbard is linked to those Polish-Hungarian ones (guess I forgot to), there are few possible solutions:
- Is the scabbard shown by you a common specimen in Afghanistan or just an exotic type? Can we really link this scabbard to the Afghan culture or is it maybe an object made somewhere else? (A lot of Poles lived in the Near-East as Emissaries.)
- Coincidence/Practicality; Afghans developing this technique themselves (this technique we´re talking about here is no rocket science. If you want to enforce a scabbard tip, this is a straight forward way to do it.)
- A European scabbard found its way to Afghanistan.
- The style came through the Ottomans to Afghanistan.
Until no other facts or comparable specimen are given all of those are equally possible. My gut feeling is that this scabbard of yours is a modified older European one (Polish/Hungarian/Austrian) which has be modernized to fit Napoleonic styles and with its hanging ring some regional/regimental fashion.
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