Infantry sword, Italy, 1920s-1930s.

Sword length in scabbard 1090 mm, spade length 1053 mm, head length 907 mm, head width at base 23 mm, back thickness at base 6 mm, spade weight 600 g, spade weight in scabbard 955 g.

Hand closed, steel frame, nickel-plated. Basket hilt, perforated in the front part with two irregular teardrops. At the head a slot for attaching a sling. A long cap with the upper part fixed with an oval nut to the stem, with the lower part, together with the stem, fixed in a ring at the hilt. In the lower part pea-shaped cap. Shank of black stock, with four finger slots. The blade is steel, straight, single-edged, nickel-plated, profiled on both sides into a single dorsal groove. At the height of the double-edged feather with a bone it transitions into two, narrow furrows. The hilt is symmetrical. The head on both sides, up to half of its length, covered with etched decoration in the form of, among others, stylized acanthus leaves and panoplies. P o c h w a steel, polished, nickel-plated, with a flared neck, two riffles with movable butt caps. Neck fixed in the scabbard sheath by a press fit. Asymmetrical spur. Dents in the lower part.
state of preservation 4/4/3-.