Mysterious Afghan Military Sabre

[Sakalord364]

Originally Posted by ariel

It's a good repair, perhaps even better than a new scabbard: wood and leather would be cut thru in a couple of years, but brass reinforcements will hold almost forever.

A significantly more interesting question is how was it carried? Where are its suspension rings?

It does have a lone suspension ring, similar to other European sabres of the period.

Though I have noticed that some Afghans pulwars do not have any suspension rings at all, which is odd because securing your sword properly is very important for the cavalry based warfare that Afghans specialized in. So I’m assuming these are all from the late 1800s when cavalry slowly started to become obsolete. Here you can see this warrior suspends his pulwar from a series of leather straps

[mahratt]

Originally Posted by Sakalord364

It does have a lone suspension ring, similar to other European sabres of the period.

Thank you very much for the photo. The photo once again confirms that your sabre is a certain imitation of “regulation Khyber knives”: