It was a unique weapon and the polished silver and gold scabbard was hard to miss, especially in the Old World under the drab rule of the Order.

A curved dagger with a gold scabbard worked in strange symbols.

Royal letters were exchanged and in 1777, George Stratton, the Viceroy of Madras, sent a gold scabbard decorated with gems to King Taksin.

He uncovered a copper urn with 35 kg of gold and a gold scabbard for a dagger.

His broad-bladed sword in its leather and gold scabbard had a handle of ivory and silver.

He wore no jewelry, other than a curved knife in a gold scabbard embossed with symbols warning the spirits to give way.

The gold scabbard was nicked and abraded by generations of sandstorms and battles, but Ryan saw that his reflection was not so terribly distorted as he might have feared.

He was dressed in snowy robes and turban, and at his waist was a scimitar in a gold scabbard.

One finger repeatedly traced a chased, sinuous design of stags and hunters worked into the gold scabbard of the slim long-sword he wore.