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Scots Guard's Piper's Dirk. A befits the history and tradition of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, The Scots Guards Pipers were a distinctive dirk. This is a style somewhere between the Piper’s Dirk worn by the Pipers of The Royal Regiment of Scotland and those more elaborate dirks worn by their Officers. This pattern is not regulated but worn by custom. The grip, hand carved in ebony in the traditional ‘Thistle’ shape, hatched and decorated with white metal ‘nails’. It has a forward leaning pommel on to which the regimental badge in brass it fitted. The blade is polished steel and the scabbard covered in patent leather has plain white metal top and knife and fork mounts. The knife and fork, held to the scabbard by white metal chain have their grips carved and hatched and ornamented with ‘nails’ and the pommel decorated with a miniature regimental badge.
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