Early Yataghan for Comments and Discussion

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The museum yataghans do not seem to have their scabbards, but there are other similar yataghans with scabbards which tend to invariably be covered in black leather, sometimes with similar decorative motives as on mine, but with silver chape and mouth fittings. A friend of mine in Bulgaria has a similar one, and the interesting part is that the scabbard fittings are hallmarked, but not with tughras. The hallmarks look quite European - does anyone recognize them?

I wonder if these fittings were added in a Central European context to a yataghan that was taken as trophy during the Great Turkish War.