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

saber length in scabbard 980 mm, saber length 952 mm, head length 825 mm, head width at base 31.5 mm, back thickness at base 4 mm, saber weight 695 g, saber weight in scabbard 1255 g

Hand closed, brass binding. Cross-barbed yoke, with whiskers. Cap long (small dent at the head), with the bottom fixed by a pin at the hilt, with the top fixed by a screw to the headstock. Wooden shaft, cross-notched, covered with black leather and laced with brass filigree. The blade is steel, nickel-plated, with a slight curvature. On the outer side, etched decoration in the form of a stylized crowned eagle and, framed by oak branches, the inscription "Honor and Fatherland". The head is profiled in a single medial furrow, a long double-edged feather, the hilt symmetrical. On the inner sill, under the hilt, a beaten signature "G. BOROWSKI/WARSZAWA". Several nickel-free foci. P o c h w a steel, nickel-plated, with two riffles, neck and asymmetrical spur.
state of preservation: 4+/4+/4+