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					Originally Posted by ariel
					
				 
				You have mentioned seeing   “exactly the same”  hilt in the collection of Russian Ethnographic Museum in SPb. I just wanted to see it myself  hoping you might have  a picture of it.  If not, I understand. 
			
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 You can see an object with a similar hilt in Особая кладовая/ Treasury of the Russian Ethnographic Museum. Access there is limited for ordinary visitors, but is open to specially organized groups - scientists, students, collectors. I hope you understand that it is forbidden to take pictures there.