Officer's saber, Poland, wz 21/22

saber length in scabbard 975 mm, saber length 933 mm, head length 80.8 mm, head width at base 28.5 mm, back thickness at base 5.5 mm, saber weight 585 g, saber weight in scabbard 1085 g

Hand closed, brass frame. Cross-barbed yoke, quadrilateral in cross-section, with oval-shaped whiskers. The rear arm ended with a volute coiled towards the head, the front arm, refracted at a right angle, forms a bail, arched reaching the head and fused to the headstock. The cap is long, reaching the hilt, with the upper part fastened with a screw on the bolt, and the lower part with a stick to a hole in the rear arm of the hilt. Under that arm the number "3" is stamped. Wooden shaft, with nine transverse notches, covered with black leather and laced with brass filigree. Between the hilt and the base of the head a leather pad. Nickel-plated steel hilt, with a slight curvature, profiled on both sides in a single dorsal groove, reaching a long, double-edged pen. The hilt is symmetrical. The outer amphibian with etched floral decoration - laurel and oak vicia, a representation of a crowned eagle and the inscription "HONOR AND DREAM". On the inner sill, under the cap, a beaten signature "G. BOROWSKI/WARSZAWA". The scabbard is made of nickel-plated steel, with two riffles and a smooth neck locking the callouses, fixed in the scabbard sheath by a press fit. The spur is asymmetrical.
state of preservation: 4/4/4