Officer's saber, Poland, wz. 21/22

saber length in scabbard 965 mm, saber length 902 mm, head length 774 mm, head width at base 29 mm, back thickness at base 5 mm, saber weight 665 g, saber weight in scabbard 1180 g

Hand closed, brass binding. Cross-barbed yoke, quadrilateral in cross-section, with oval-shaped whiskers. The rear arm of the hilt ends in a volute coiled towards the head, the front arm, refracted at a right angle, forms a bow reaching the head and fused to the headstock. The cap is long, reaching the hilt, with the upper part attached by a screw to the shaft, the lower part by a stick to a hole in the rear arm of the hilt. Wooden shaft, with eleven transverse notches, covered with black leather and braided with brass filigree. The blade is nickel-plated steel, with a high curvature, profiled on both sides into a single medial furrow, reaching a long, double-edged feather. The staff is symmetrical. On the inside, under the root, near the spine, the signature "A. MANN/WARSAW". P o c h w a steel, nickel-plated, with two riffles and a cannelled neck, locking the callouses. The neck is fixed in the scabbard sheath with a screw on the outer side. The spur is asymmetrical.
state of preservation: 5-/5-/5-