Nice
Hi Ariel. Very nice one. Not common with scabbard and almost nothing missing. They are charming despite the primitive workmanship. Notice the style of decoration with bulges is similar to my shybriya.
Probably not its first scabbard though. The sword itself looks well used and might have been used in combat, because the Negev in the later half of the 19th c was the scene of several relatively large scale tribal wars between the Tiyaha, al Azazme and the Tarabin.
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