Unusual Yataghan scabbard for comment

[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by Dom

Hi Gav
the Ottomans, or peoples of Ottoman culture had to love especially the precious materials, like;
gold, silver, ivory etc. and semi-precious to precious stones
not rare to find it on the hilt and scabbard's daggers, and even swords,

what should be the brake, was certainly the price to pay ...
like ... every where, at any time

the Janissaries, and more specially the Mamelukes
were to be of great "coquet" (French word to said; love to dress handsome)
à +

Dom

ps/ the blade need some elbow oil and the leather of the scabbard some wax
and it will be a very nice "ya" ... I like it

Hi Koto, I agree it does look like coral.

Thanks Dom It will be treated with wax as you say and likely some etch if is warrants....I too will then like to more

I had never heard of 'coquet'. You are correct in what you say though.
With regards to beautiful materials and dressing 'coquet', <<or 'dandy' as later Englishmen referred to the practice of dressing handsome>>, the end result of any dress was always a matter of pockets and how deep and full they were as you note.

I guess my point with the scabbard is, not that it has been dressed in the material it has, but the form of having a stone mounted finial is to my eye so far not pointed to in any reference work I have and I can not recall seeing another mounted so....where many types of silver and coral scabbards are seen and to a large degree they follow a standard 'pattern', none I can find show a larger simple finial as such

Anyone have a good reference to such a simple mounting?

Gav