My first Shashka

[Turkoman.khan]

Originally Posted by Pitt1999

I stopped at one of my regular antique malls to see if they had anything I would be interested in and I found this shashka. I think this is a military model based on the markings, but I will let you all be the judge of that. It's a bit beat up, a little but rusty in spots, but that's okay with me. For a first example I don't think it's too bad.

Hello, Pitt1999

Congratulations. This is an excellent shashka owned by a Russian Cossack. On the one hand, it is a military model. But on the other hand, since the Cossacks are a sub-ethnos, and only the Cossacks were armed with such shashkas, we can to some extent talk about ethnic arms.
On the one hand on the blade in the cartouche are the Cyrillic letters "KKB", which are the abbreviation of the Kuban Cossack army. On the other side, in the cartouche, the letters "ЗОФ" - the Zlatoust Arms Factory. The numbers "1916" - the year of production of this shashka.