Dragoon officer's shashka, Russia, wz 1881

scabbard length 944 mm, scabbard length 932 mm, head length 799 mm, head width at base 30 mm, back thickness at base 5 mm, scabbard weight 820 g, scabbard weight in scabbard 1100 g

Hand closed, brass binding. A sigmoid yoke. The rear arm ended with a ring for tying a sling, the front one, bent twice, forms a bail connected to the head with a catch. The bail is decorated on both sides with a laurel leaf motif. Handle shaft of ebony, diagonally notched, gripped with a ring at the bottom, from the top with a short cap fixed with a nut on the head stem. On the hood a beaten letter "A", on the hilt "M", under the hilt a Cyrillic inscription "SLAWA/MOSCOW". Between the hilt and the base of the head a leather pad. The head of polished steel, nickel-plated, with a slight curvature. Profiled on both sides in a wide medial furrow, reaching a double-edged feather. The hilt is symmetrical. On the inner sill, under the cap, stamped in three lines the signature of the manufacturer operating in the Vladimir Gubernia: in Cyrillic "SIDOROV". P o c h w a s made of wooden shells, veneered and lined with black leather. Brass hardware. Neck with a superimposed ring with a cut-out entablature on the inner side, attached to the scabbard sheath with two screws. Below the riffle with a movable butt on the incisive side. The scabbard ends in a viscera. At the scabbard an officer's sling.
state of preservation: 5/5/5