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Contrary to popular belief that the countries in Europe in that time that had the most economic and military contact with the Ottoman Empire were constantly copying Ottoman inventions, in reality this relationship was based on a two-way exchange. For example, European blades were highly valued in the Middle East, but traditional Polish headgear was also copied. This as a reminder. The following is just my conclusion and opinion.

In the case of the scabbards and the exact content of your question, I would say that this rail and the clasps along the scabbard are more likely to have originated in areas of then Hungary and Poland-Lithuania. One indication of this could be the specimens and their differences from Ottoman and Hungarian-Polish weapons. This technique can be seen as early as 1514 as the contemporary painting "Bitwa pod Orsza" shows. The light cavalry there has been equipped (according to the painting which is said to be realistic) with osmano-hungarian sabers with traditional scabbards, as well as the same sabers with the "more modern" scabbard style we ware talking about here.

Another clue is provided by the iconography. From a certain point onwards, sabres in the Hungarian-Polish style can also be found in the Ottoman Empire (which included regions of the Balkans and was therefore geographically in the immediate vicinity). In the iconography of the 16th and 17th centuries, this type of scabbard (together with the corresponding Hungarian-Polish sabre) is much less common among the Ottoman warriors depicted than their own variants of edged weapons and scabbards. I conclude from this that it must have been an imported product from central and eastern Europe.

I do not see this technique as a way of repairing scabbards, but rather as a way of preventing damage.

The colored picture is said to be from 1577 by Nicolas de Nicolay, the other one is from 1703 by Caspar Luyken. The depicted group drawing is from Codex vindobonensis 8626, c.1591.