Information about this scabbard

This Variation is made with black lacquered leather bodies with sheet brass mounts.  The leather bodies are contoured to the shape of the curved blades.  Both throat and tip mounts are held to the leather with two large brass rivets on each side.

The frog stud is a 16 mm domed brass stud, brazed to the right side of the throat mount.  The throat edges are bent inwardly and the opening is in the shape of a blade.

The large tip finial, an oval brass cap that is almost flat, is brazed over the end of the tip mount body.

The throat mounts are 73 mm long and 38 mm wide.  The tip mount is 83 mm long and 27 mm wide.  The overall length is approximately 520 mm long.  Normally the only marking is the small proof stamped in the center of the frog stud.

Variation B, on the left, is identical to Variation C (Zouave), on the right, except for a couple minor differences.  First, the Variation C (Zouave) scabbard on the right has a small single letter proof stamped in the center of the frog stud and the Variation B scabbard on the left does not.  The second difference is the contour of the scalloped edges on both throat and tip mounts.  The curvature on Variation B almost flattens at the edges, whereas, Variation C curves smoothly to the center of the edge where it starts the upward curve for the other side.  This can be seen more strongly in the following two pictures of the tip mounts.  

Variation B is on the left and Variation C (Zouave) is on the right.

Variation B is on the top and Variation C (Zouave) is on the bottom.

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