Metal sheath for knife with blue velvet cover and decorative metal at cap, center and tip. Metal chain attached at cap, center and tip. Additional metal chain used for attaching to belt. Cardboard in interior of sheath.

Makedonomachos , Macedonian Freedom Fighter, uniform. Collected by Maria Fakonas, to honor Pavlos Melas (3/29/1870-10/13/1904), an officer in the Hellenic Army, he was among the first who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia. Maria's father Demetrios G. Karageorgis left America to return to Greece in 1912 to fight for the freedom of Epirus and Macedonia.

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