French Heavy Cavalry 18th Century Sword Scabbard Ancient Marked "United States Government Printing

Marked "United States Government Printing Office

This accounts for a lot of variations in styles

which is absent

The toe of the scabbard is not beaten up

Most cans have leather padding on the top carry handle

French Heavy Cavalry 18th Century Sword Scabbard Ancient Marked "United States Government PrintingNew Made Item: Old New Stock, made in the early 1990s, these are "old vintage" Reproductions of the very rare early model Brass Cuirassier Heavy Cavalry straight Bladed Sword Scabbards with windows showing the leather covered wood linings. Originally in use before the French Revolution these very decorative but rather delicate scabbards were superseded for combat use with the more common all steel variety. These early style scabbards however were