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>Costume Studies
>>1877 Cossack hetman
>>>saber
Subject: гетьман cavalry commander
Culture: Ukrainian Cossack
Setting: Russian empire mid 19thc-early 20thc
Object: шашка saber





​​Virginia War Museum > Evolution of Weaponry *
"Saber, Don Cossack Type Model 1918,
with Scabbard and attached M1891 Mosin-Nagant bayonet,
state factories, SN 423, c. 1929." ...

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* Virginia War Museum > Evolution of Weaponry
"Saber, Caucasian, Cossack-type Shaska, with Scabbard, c. 1915." ...







* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Sword (shasqua)  Russian, Tiflis, dated 1855  
This sword has a hilt made of silver gilt decorated with a floral pattern ornament.
The silver mounts are hallmarked for 1855 and the blade is of pattern welded steel."  ...​