Gav that is some great info, and those are some beautiful scabards, pretty sure the blades inside are awesome as well. My grandmother was from Samarqand and I remember when i was super young there was a sword at home that they had brought with them after the Russians had invaded and they had migerated to Afghanistan. It was all metal with no scabard but the hilt shape was just like the ones you pictured. One a second thought maybe i should try to see how i can get that.
Back to my shashka, This week I am super busy at work, Hopefully in a couple of days i can get everything done and go and pay off this shashka and then take some better pictures. I bet with the pictures of the full lenght blade it would be easier to indentify. On another thought I wonder who came up with the word Palowar/Palouar for afghan swords, we call them simply as shamshir, just like pretty much every other sword.
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