saber length 895 mm, blade length 780 mm, blade width at base 35 mm, back thickness at base 10 mm, saber weight 685 g
Hand closed, brass frame. The hilt is straight, with bolsters on both sides, forming a protective shield. The yoke transitions into a bail twice refracted at right angles. The outer side of the hilt and the bail is decorated with incisions in the form of small chevrons. The shaft of the handle is wooden, minimally inclined forward, longitudinally cannelled. Almond-shaped cap, riveted with the shaft of the head. Apron decoratively cut, riveted to the shaft. The steel hilt, of great curvature, profiled on both sides in a wide furrow from the base to the lower part of the hilt with a claw. An analogous saber in the collection of St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum of Arts and Crafts (no. 6922). Described in: Wojciech Zablocki "Cięcia prawdziwą szablą", published by Sport and Tourism, Warsaw 1989, pp. 160-161, item 23. Attached to the saber is the expert opinion of Dr. Włodzimierz Kwaśniewicz
"(...) the saber in question, historically and materially valuable, is a beautiful piece of a Polish combat officer's saber from about the middle of the 18th century. The foreign provenance of the head does not prove the ethnicity of the saber as in Polish history and arms science the origin of white weapons, including of course sabers, is determined by the ethnicity of the handle, adapted to the Polish style of fighting and to Polish tradition."
excerpt from the expert opinion of Dr. W. Kwaśniewicz
state of preservation 4/4
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