Thread: Afghan shashkas
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Old 26th September 2019, 01:48 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by mahratt
Marius, I would agree with you. But! As you can see in the first photo, the handle of this shashka is very deeply hidden in scabbard. So I think that the master made these scabbard specifically for this shashka
Or the blade was shortened by cutting off the tang (or part of it) and placing the new shashka hilt lower... (this is very common for Japanese swords).

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