Hunting sword or whinger, the interlace carved on its wooden grip similar to that on many Highland dirks, with a scabbard showing pockets for a small knife and fork, and a fork, c. 1700

Leather scabbard, for a dudgeon dagger

Metal-lined scabbard with broad silver mounts, for a broadsword

Remains of a leather-covered wooden scabbard, for a broadsword

Leather-covered scabbard mounted with a brass chape, all japanned and gilt en suite with the hilt, for use with a basket hilted sabre

Officer's sword with gilt gothic hilt and 21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot decoration and motifs, the single-edged, fullered, curved, blade is etched with Crimea battle honours and is decorated with 'Royal Scots Fusiliers' and marked 'Restored by Wilkinson Pall Mall London', in brass scabbard, owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Hazlerigg, 1855 - 1880

Bracket or shoe for scabbard (Doppsko till svärdsslide) of iron, Iron Age, from Denmark

Bracket or shoe for scabbard (Doppsko till svärdsslide) of bronze, Bronze Age, from Denmark

Bronze sword scabbard with late Celtic ornamentation, from Morton Hall, Pentland, Midlothian, 1st - 2nd century AD

Scabbard chape with ornamental scrolls, from Houndslow, Westruther, Berwickshire, 100 BC - 0

Facsimile of a bronze winged chape, from Perth, Perthshire

Silver scabbard chape with Latin inscriptions, animals and fish, Pictish, from St Ninian's Isle, 8th century

Scabbard chape of silver with zoomorphic terminals with glass insets for eyes, Pictish, from St Ninian's Isle, 8th century

Double edged sword of iron with a fragmentary scabbard, part of a Viking grave assemblage from Balnakeil, Durness, Sutherland

Leather dirk scabbard with two remaining brass mounts, the top one engraved "AC", the other with a pierced heart, found in an old kist in the Gateside Smithy near Beith, c. 1960

Court sword and scabbard, with curved blade of steel, scabbard of wood encrusted in gold with the Tokugawa crest (three hollyhock leaves), with furniture and mounts wrought in egg-roe shakudo, given to John Richard Davidson by the Japanese government: Japan, blade by Fujiwara no Yukihiro, 1661 – 1672, mount 19th century