Cavalry non-commissioned officer's saber, Prussia, wz 1852/79

saber length in scabbard 977 mm, saber length 922 mm, head length 798 mm, head width at base 26 mm, back thickness at base 6 mm, saber weight 730 g, saber weight in scabbard 1120 g.

Hand closed, steel frame, basket, nickel-plated. Tailpiece sigmoidal, shield and tri-barrel. Inner and outer shields decorated with perforated geometric motifs, mounted on hinges. Wooden shaft, cross-notched, wrapped in leather and laced with three filigrees. Long cap with cheeks bottom mounted in a ring, top riveted with a head pin. In the cheeks a transverse rivet, fixing the shaft additionally. A polished nickel-plated steel hilt, with a slight curvature, profiled on both sides into a single, reaching long double-edged feather, with a dimple groove. The staff is symmetrical. On the outer lobe, under the hilt, the maker's signature "Weyersberg & Kirschbaum". The hilt is steel, with two riffles, ending in an asymmetrical spur. The upper riffle without a collar, with a horizontal catch on the inside, the lower one with a fixed collar on the back. Neck fixed in the scabbard sheath by a press fit. Three small dents in the sheath.
state of preservation 4/4/3+