Hello All!
I just have found in one serious (
) Russian Internet shop a Zlatoust shashka which was already sold. It is claimed to be 100% original. But it looks to me that markings have same errors.
It would be interesting for me to know if it is a fake or not, or maybe it is a compilation?
http://www.leibstandarte.ru/good.php?id=3972
Also, can somebody give me any trusted sources, where real samples (good photos and detailed descriptions) of shashkas from different times (especially WW1 to WW2) are shown. From my side I can recommend following books:
Russian Cold Arms, A.N.Kulinskiy, Atlant, 2005 (In Russian)
Russian Cold Arms 1800 - 1917, A.N.Kulinskiy, 1994 (In Russian)
Just to claim that something is a fake, without providing any evidences is not proper.