The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Russian Pattern 1881 Cossack Trooper's sword and scabbard. The hilt has a brass ferrule, stamped O 42 and a pommel in the shape of a birds beak with a hole for a wrist strap and is engraved with CCCP over a star over a hammer and sickle. The wooden grips have diagonal grooves. The curved blade has a wide fuller to each side to within 140 mm of the double edged point. The ricasso is stamped on the left with a hammer and sickle arsenal mark and 1930. The right side is marked T 150. The black leather scabbard has a nickel plated chape and locket with a slot for a belt strap. It has three other nickel steel bands; the centre one with a loose ring for the second belt strap and the other two with slots at the front that take a Moisin Nagant rifle socket bayonet. The bayonet RELAWM02116 is not attached.
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Russian Pattern 1881 Cossack Trooper's sword and scabbard. The hilt has a brass ferrule and a pommel in the shape of a birds beak with a hole for a wrist strap. The wooden grips have diagonal grooves.
Soviet Pattern 1881 Dragoon Trooper's sword. The hilt has a brass D shape guard stamped A on the right and 1914 under some cyrillic letters on the left and has a hole in the quillon end. The wooden gr
Turkish Cavalry Trooper's Sword and Scabbard. The hilt is a sheet steel guard with turned edges and is pierced with a crescent moon and star. The grips are dark brown checkered bakelite held to the ta
Turkish Cavalry Trooper's Sword and Scabbard. The hilt is a sheet steel guard with turned edges and is pierced with a crescent moon and star. The grips are dark brown checkered bakelite held to the ta
Pattern 1917 Sword Bayonet and Scabbard. The hilt is similar to the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield 1907 bayonet except that the cross guard for the muzzle ring is longer and the wooden grips which are hel
German Third Reich Police Officer's sword and scabbard. The chrome plated hilt is a single bar 'D' section stirrup type with a black painted grip having a nickel acorn leaf ferrule but the eagle and s