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Old 5th January 2007, 06:13 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Manolo
Well the one in the pictures with the beige/brown scabbard has very tight stitching, you don't see the stitches. On the black one they are blatantly exposed and very large. Does this occur on other types of scabbards? Again, my mention of khukri scabbards is due to them being the closest thing I can think of to compare with this black khanjar scabbard.

Emanuel
Yes, the wire stitching is fairly common in older pieces; it is made quite wide in your example.

Yataghan scabbard.
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