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

saber length in scabbard 997 mm, saber length 907 mm, head length 782 mm, head width at base 31 mm, back thickness at base 5 mm, saber weight 690 g, saber weight in scabbard 1245 g

Hand closed, brass binding. Cross-barbed yoke, quadrilateral in cross-section, with whiskers. The rear arm of the hilt closed in a volute towards the head, the front one, refracted at a right angle, forms a bow in an arc reaching the head and connected to the headstock. Wooden shaft with eleven, transverse notches, veneered with black leather and laced with brass filigree. A long, reaching deerstalker cap attached with a screw on the head and a pin to a hole in the rear arm of the deerstalker. Steel head, polished, nickel-plated, with moderate curvature. Profiled on both sides into a single adventitious furrow, reaching a long, double-edged pen. The hilt is symmetrical. On the outer amphibian etched on a pea-like background decoration: a sequence of oak leaves and fruits. Between them a representation of a crowned eagle of model 19 and an inscription in italics: "HONOR AND HOMELAND". On the inner amphibian, under the cap a beaten signature: "G. BOROWSKI/WARSZAWA". P o c h w a steel, polished, nickel-plated. Two riffles with movable collars on the back. Neck with collar fixed in the sheath by pressing. The scabbard ended with an asymmetrical spur with the numerator 1591 stamped on the inner side. At the spur a small dent. Scabbard too long - matched.
state of preservation: 5-/5-/4+