saber engraving

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Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

Is a Latin motto on a Russian blade, a French influence on Russian officer class more than Prussian?Tim

Blade is refitted to the russian hilt, and probably is a little older. It's hard to say for sure, but there is conjecture this blades were made in Germany (Solingen?) just as Pandur's ones and "Vivat hussar's ones". In Poland used as a patriotic. There was a great French influence all over the Eastern Europe. Don't mind Poland, which fought side by side with Napoleon, but French was court language in Russia for example.

Perkun: is there anything on the back of the blade? - I mean opposite side to the edge.

Regards!