Cossack shashka, wz. 1883, 14th Cavalry Lancers Regiment

scabbard length 1023 mm, scabbard length 997 mm, head length 863 mm, head width at base 32 mm, back thickness at base 7 mm, scabbard weight 820 g, scabbard weight in scabbard 1270 g.

Handle open, brass binding. Handle shaft of a single hardwood, diagonally grooved. Bottom set in a wide ring with an index finger rest. Top framed by a forked head with a hole for a sling. In the bifurcation there is a nut attaching the handle to the head pin. On the outer side of the ring is the manufacturer's signature of 1905 written in Cyrillic letters - the Zlotourest arms factory. On the inner side of the ring minted military numerals "K.14 PUJ" (14th Cavalry Lancers Regiment) and Russian numerals. Embedded on the head is an eagle found in Polish corps in Russia. The head is steel, with low curvature. Profiled on both sides into a single, wide furrow reaching a long, double-edged pen with a bone. The butt of the hilt. On the outer sill a stamped signature of the Zlotuste factory and the date "1905". On the inner receiving punch, the letter "A", "A" under the crown and the number "5". Corrosion neutralized throughout. P o c h w a s wooden, covered with black leather, brass hardware. Neck with applied ring with antabka, riffle with movable buttstock on the incisal side and viscera. At the shashka hangs the original leather sling.
state of preservation: 4/3-/4