Copies of sabers are mainly ceremonial. Once, their owners were the Bukharan and Khiva dignitaries. The ceremonial weapon is also represented in the collection by ten sabers. Their blades are made of Damascus and Dalmatian steel and the handles are made of ivory.
Therefore, the sheaths of these sabers impress with the splendor of material and decoration: silver, gilded, with a convex relief pattern; strewn with turquoise; leather and velvet mounted in silver. The sword belts of colored velvet and light purple, red, crimson, burgundy, dark green tones, decorated with silver and gilded openwork pendants (their number ranges from 20 to 60) make rich color chord.
Four parts of the sword belt are attached to the central buckle, decorated with sard and turquoise. In some cases, it is a separate large sard. The clasps on each of the four straps are also open-work with gilding. Some belts are decorated with tassels, silver chains and little bells. One of sword belts is leather; two of its wide parts covering the waist are decorated with little bells and the central buckle with a sard and turquoise.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Collection of the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan" (Part 2, Volume XXVII) in the series "Сultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
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