Private heavy cavalry saber, Austria wz. 1869

Saber length in scabbard 1035 mm, saber length 1010 mm, head length 844 mm, head width at base 36 mm, back thickness at base 9 mm, saber weight 1200 g, saber weight in scabbard 2075 g.

Hand closed, steel frame. Basket hilt, openwork, with round holes. Rear arm of the hilt with two slots for a sling, ending with a cylindrical tip coiled towards the head. The tapering front part of the shield, arched upward, forms a bail connected to the headstock. Wooden shaft, cross-notched, veneered with imitation lizard skin. The cap is long, with cheekpieces, attached by a ring at the hilt, from the top by a profiled screw on the headstock. Head of steel, polished, with low curvature, profiled in one wide furrow on the outer amphibian. The blade is long, double-edged, with bones on both sides. The hilt is symmetrical. On the outer sill of the head, under the hilt, a piston of the "W-n" factory, double-headed eagle, "86/JUNG". P o c h w a s steel, with a neck and two riffles, ending in an asymmetrical spur. The neck fixed in the scabbard sheath by two screws. The upper riffle without a spike, with a horizontal catch on the inner side, the lower one with a fixed spike on the back of the scabbard. Repeated maker's mark on the inner side of the spur.
state of preservation: 5/5/5