A shot of the obverse crossguard. The grip, as you can see, is a beauiful piece of turned ivory. The quillion arms are quite detailed on their extremities & the fittings are clearly brass. This picture also gives a good view of the scabbard throat retaining screws which are at either flank of the scabbard throat, have flat heads & jut out significantly.
One horrible moment happened shortly after I unpacked this dagger from it's journey. I nearly threw out the brass ferrule with the box. Gladly a buddy noticed my mistake fast & alerted me before I did a bad thing. How hard would it have been to find one of those parts?
