Cavalry saber, Austria-Hungary, 1st half of the 19th century.

saber length in scabbard 980 mm, saber length 975 g, head length 660 mm, head width at base 33 mm, back thickness at base 8 mm, saber weight 665 g, saber weight in scabbard 1205 g

Hand closed, steel frame. Tailpiece sigmoidal, basket-shaped. Symmetrical basket, openwork, cut into slots and circles. Wooden shaft, cross-notched, covered with black leather. Long cap fixed in a ring at the hilt, with the top on the shaft of the head. The steel hilt, of great curvature, shortened by about fifteen centimeters, profiled on both sides into a single, reaching double-edged feather furrow. The hilt in line with the ridge. On the spine, under the cap, an engraved inscription. P o c h w a s steel, cannelled neck, two riffles with movable collars and round buttons on rings, asymmetrical spur. The whole, as well as the handle frame and the head, painted with a clear varnish.
state of preservation 3-/3-/3+