Officer's saber, Poland, wz 21/22

saber length in scabbard 994 mm, saber length 957 mm, head length 825 mm, head width at base 33 mm, back thickness at base 5 mm, saber weight 785 g, saber weight in scabbard 1325 g

Hand closed, brass frame. Cross-barbed hilt, with whiskers. The hilt arched at the top, fused to the headstock. Wooden shaft, horizontally notched, covered with leather and laced with brass filigree. The cap is long, reaching the hilt, with the bottom fixed with a pin in the hole of the rear arm, with the top bolted to the shaft. The steel hilt, polished, nickel-plated, of moderate curvature, profiled on both sides in three narrow dorsal furrows, reaching a long, double-edged pen. The hilt is symmetrical. P o c h w a s steel, nickel-plated. Neck fixed by pressing into the sheath. Two riffles with movable colts on the back. Asymmetrical spur.
state of preservation 4/4/4