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14th October 2017, 03:44 AM
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Blade is a bit short for a dragoon. It would be safer to just label it an army officer's shashka.
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14th October 2017, 09:46 AM
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Beautiful sword! Was the grip originally covered with leather or they were issued with plain wood like that?
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14th October 2017, 11:15 AM
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Thank you for comments. Yes, I think they were issued with uncovered grips.
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14th October 2017, 11:44 AM
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Might be horn and not wood?
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14th October 2017, 12:50 PM
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Grips are usually wood, or on occasion some sort of early bakelite.
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3rd November 2017, 10:46 AM
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Grip
Yes the grip is correct I have seen original issue and or replacements also made out of wood when bake light would be broken or wood insert pieces in broken bake light handles , none of the Imperial Russian swords of this model had leather or wire wrapped handles I am aware of. Nice piece.
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