Information about this scabbard

This scabbard was made with black lacquered leather bodies with sheet brass mounts.  Both throat and tip mounts are held to the leather with two small brass rivets on each side.  It is believed that only a few hundred of these scabbards would have been produced. 

The leather body appears to have been contoured to the shape of the curved blades. 

The frog stud is a 17 mm domed brass stud brazed to the right side of the throat mount.  There is a brass plate with the blade slot cut through it brazed to the top of the throat edges.  The construction of the throat piece is very similar to Type 1B except for the shape of the blade slot. 

The tip was made of brass and appears to have been very similar as those found on the Type 3A scabbards but only pictures of them have been seen.  

The throat mount is 68 mm long and 44 mm wide.  

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