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Originally Posted by RSWORD
Just a note that the scabbard is leather and not rayskin and most probably is ass/donkey skin. Many times these leathers are dyed green and have a bumpy surface and can be mistaken for rayskin but I'm confident in this example that it is leather. Not much to add to what everyone else has stated.
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Hi
why I thought to "ray skin" ?
- due to the skin's granular, which is very characteristic
- also because I have a yatagan which the scabbard is in "galucha" (ray skin)
and his original color is black ...
I looked for (google image), how looks like, the "ass/donkey skin",
but seems very confidential, didn't found a single pic
in the same time; galucha, or ray skin ... it's plenty
you have to take in your account that during 19th and 20th century,
the "galucha" was very fashionable, every men of quality (even the Ladies),
was having something in "galucha" for instance;
- cigarettes holder, also, the hilt of the swords was garnish in "galucha"
only, the military drums cover, was ...as far as I know made from "ass/donkey skin"
all the best
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Dom