So I received the dagger in the mail a couple of days ago. There was nothing else of note with the blade and scabbard other than one of the edges shows light wear from use/sharpening and the wooden core of the scabbard is broken. What was two pieces of wood is now four. The interesting part is the hilt, the 6 pin construction was pointed out before along with the presence of a guard but what couldn't be seen are the sides of the hilt where normally the tang would be visible. I say normally because there is a strip of some type of metal, maybe lead, zinc or pewter wrapped along the edges of the tang. Stranger still the metal strip and the guard appear to be one continuous piece, or they were two pieces joined by soldering, brazing or some similar process. To me at least these elements seem to be very unusual for a kindjal.
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