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Scabbard. An elaborate Celtic scabbard of 1-200 AD, in two colours of bronze. 1916 Leather Scabbard for a saddle lever-action rifle of Jack Peters, a ranch hand that worked on the Grant-Kohrs Ranch, in Powell County, Montana. A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, dagger, knife, or similar edged weapons.
The scabbard itself was typically made of wood or leather, and the inside was often lined with fleece or fur. The inside might have also been greased or oiled to prevent the sword from rusting. [44] Some scabbards were further protected by a metal binding at their neck (known as a frog or locket) and a chape at the bottom. [45]
The weight of the sword is about 1 lb 10.5 oz (750 g) and the scabbard about 1 lb 1 oz (480 g). [6] The 31 inch-long (79 cm) blade is slab-sided and of a V-shaped cross-section, it is double-edged for its last 12 inches (the yelman) and comes to a relatively acute asymmetric point. The flat sides of the blade afford a large area for decoration.
Scabbard and Blade was founded as a men's organization and became a co-educational society. Before going coed, it sponsored auxiliaries and support organizations for women, including Guidon, Blades, and the National Organization of L'Esprit de Corps, founded in 1971. [5] S&B became a member of the Association of College Honor Societies in 2010. [8]
Takoba. A Malian man drawing a highly decorated takouba - the leather covered crossguard is evident, as is the fullering of the blade and tooling of the leather scabbard. Takoba (also takuba or takouba) is the sword that is used across the western Sahel and among ethnic groups such as the Tuareg, the Hausa, and the Fulani.
The scabbard was brown leather with a brass chape and frog hook. Soon after the Admiralty took over the Coastguard cutlass was withdrawn and standard navy pattern weapons issued. The hilts of the Coastguard cutlasses were reused by the War Department; mounted to straight blades they were issued to privates of the Army Hospital Corps from 1857. [22]
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