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The blade is steel, curved, single-edged. In
their curvature, fuller character and decorative patterns the
blades were arbitrary.
The hilt comprises a grip with a pommel, a
cross-guard piece with a double
langet and a chain with a
ball. The grip is horn. The grip's pommel is metal, oblong,
curved towards the blade's edge. The pommel and the grip's middle
part are embossed with rosette patterns. The knuckle bow has been
replaced with a chain with ball of decorative nature. The double langets outside
featured an embossed cypher of the Emperor, whose reign had made
the weapon-owner's first commissioner rank possible. The
cross-guard's quillon
tips are figured. All the hilt's metal parts are gilt.
The scabbard is wood, covered in
burgundy-coloured velvet. The metal slit mount covers most of the
scabbard's surface. The scabbard's upper third part features a
fancy (figured) triangular ecusson
and two bands (replicating
the rosettes on the grip in their shape) with (loose-) ring
fitments to take the belt suspension's straps. The ecusson and
scabbard bands are gilt.
The "clytch"
(shamshir) was only carried outside
formation by the
Life Guard's Composite Cossack regiment officers,
probably, after 1909 till the end of the period considered.
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