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This is picture of two damascus blades made in Tula at 1750. (Andrei Shurinov send it to me):
This is article from museum:
"The grips of iron, chiselled with scrollwork, rocailles, and trophies against a damascened gold pointille ground. The mounts of the scabbards are decorated in a similar manner. The blades, slightly curved, are of Damascus steel (in the specimen on the left it is possibly imitation).
The left-hand scabbard covered with scate scin, the righ-hand one, with leather; both scabbards are fitted with a receptacle for a spoon, knife, and fork, which has survived only in one
of them, that on the right. The handles of the knife and fork are decorated en suite with the grips and mounts.
L 540 (left), 455 (right). Datable to about 1750 (left), 1750-1760 (right). "
Thanks, Vassili.
This is article from museum:
"The grips of iron, chiselled with scrollwork, rocailles, and trophies against a damascened gold pointille ground. The mounts of the scabbards are decorated in a similar manner. The blades, slightly curved, are of Damascus steel (in the specimen on the left it is possibly imitation).
The left-hand scabbard covered with scate scin, the righ-hand one, with leather; both scabbards are fitted with a receptacle for a spoon, knife, and fork, which has survived only in one
of them, that on the right. The handles of the knife and fork are decorated en suite with the grips and mounts.
L 540 (left), 455 (right). Datable to about 1750 (left), 1750-1760 (right). "
Thanks, Vassili.