Polish carbuncle, 18th century, in scabbard

steel, bone, silver; wood, leather; head length 17 cm; total length 91 cm; length in scabbard 94 cm;
Persia (head), Poland (frame), 18th century.
Shamshir [lion's tail] type head - Persian, with smooth lobes of gray un-etched damast (original condition); probably older than the frame, with considerable curvature.
Steel, cross-headed, stylized Turkish (?), in the middle part decorated with a four-leaf rosette; the arms ended with elongated mace. Wooden handle shaft, with white bone facings
decorated with chevrons (incisions in herringbone motif), with three rivets with heads in the form of silver rosettes; the head in the shape of a stylized bird's head. The place of joining the facings and the shank masked with a
silver strip. Scabbard made of wooden lugs, covered with brown leather, with four fittings made of silver sheet, richly decorated with engraving: a pair of fittings - riffles with bracelets; a fitting around the neck - a
wide, with a slit - a slit on the dorsal side to facilitate the extraction of a saber with a large curve; bottom ferrule - a high silver viscus.
There is a similar saber in the museum collection (literature: Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Bohdan O. Jeżewski - "Polonica na Wyspach Brytyjskich", published by Taurus, London, 1966, p. 138, saber 97, 98, 99.