The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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. The curved blade has a wide fuller to each side to within 220 mm of the double edged point. The ricasso is stamped on the left with an arsenal mark and 1898. The right side has III (twice) and 5. The black leather scabbard has a brass chape and locket with a slot for a belt strap. It is missing a brass band that would have had a loose ring attached for the second belt strap.
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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
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
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
Imperial Russian Pattern 1909 Cavalry Officer's sword and scabbard. The blackened brass hilt has a D shape stirrup guard with the cypher of Nicholas II on the pommel. The grip is black bone with horiz
Pattern 07 (shortened) bayonet with scabbard and belt webbing. The blade has been ground down to 23cm and the scabbard modified accordingly. The manufacturer's name (Lithgow) is impressed on one side
German Pattern 1934 Air Force Officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has a silver plate cross guard in the design of wings with a brass rounded swastika within a circle in the centre. The grip is blue
