Original 19th Century Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Three-Piece Horn Grip British "Bobby" Police and is 8 inches wide

and is 8 inches wide at the trunnions

Many civilian holsters mimicked the military holsters with flaps that fully covered and protected the gun from fouling due to exposure to weather

so having mismatching dates is very common

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Original 19th Century Abyssinian Ethiopian Shotel Sword with Three-Piece Horn Grip British "Bobby" Police and is 8 inches wideOriginal Item: One of a Kind. These very unusual swords with very very curved blades come from the "Horn of Africa," which includes Abyssinia, which we now know as Ethiopia. Made famous just before WWII by the Italian Invasion of that Country, and the appeal by it's Emperor Haile Selassie to the League of Nations, which the Western Powers basically ignored. It's Capital is ADDIS ABABA, a city dating back some 2,000 years and more. A Country much in