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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Soki, post: 9414044, member: 79556&quot;]Thank you all for your replies!</p><p>There’s indeed a long tale, so Japanese Tsushima leopard or iriomote cat is a very good guess.</p><p><br /></p><p>I sadly don’t have much information about this beautiful piece. It has been aquired incomplete like in the pictures in France and I‘ll hopefully get some more information about it soon.</p><p>I‘ll keep you up to date<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The incompleteness is pretty sad, because the full story of the carvings remain unknown. Would be super nice to see them. The scabbard was probably much longer. The size would be like this piece:</p><p><a href="https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/181-a-japanese-carved-ivory-short-sword/?lot=424692&amp;sd=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/181-a-japanese-carved-ivory-short-sword/?lot=424692&amp;sd=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/lot/181-a-japanese-carved-ivory-short-sword/?lot=424692&amp;sd=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Those japanese bone/ivory carved short swords where pretty common in the 19th century, but many of them seem less plastic and detailled. The piece above has very nice carvings, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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