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Old 13th November 2020, 06:37 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Tatyana Dianova
Another strange thing: the suspension ring is on the front side of the dagger (look carefully at the pictures of the both sides). Was a Tibetan dagger carried in some funny fashion or was this one incorrectly assembled later?
The scabbard design is structurally and functionally common to knife sheaths used in China, Mongolia, and Korea as well. The bar with ring is on the back side. The system was designed to attach to a chatelaine, or a frog made of thick leather and often decorated with silver, that the belt or sash was inserted through.
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