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The blade is steel, curved, single-edged. In
their fuller character, curvature and decoration-wise the blades
were arbitrary.
The hilt comprises a grip with pommel and a
guard. The grip is wood, covered in leather, featuring transverse
grooves and bound in the grooves with twisted wire. The grip's
back is surmounted by a metal back-piece, sweeping into a pommel,
embossed with a figured rosette. The guard is formed by a cross- -guard
piece with
a double langet
and a knuckle bow, branching off it, its upper end swept
into the pommel. The cross-bar is a straight faceted bar. All the
hilt's metal parts are gilt.
The scabbard is wood, covered in black leather.
The metal slit mount comprises a locket and a chape with shoes,
covering nearly the entire scabbard's surface. The locket is
pierced out with one long slit and three round holes, the chape
features two long slits and five round holes. The locket and the
chape have one (loose-)
ring fitment each to take the belt suspensions straps.
Overall length is about 1,000 mm, the blade's
length is about 000 mm, the blade's width and curvature were
arbitrary, the mass - about 1,700
gr.
The "clytch"
(shamshir) was only carried outside
formation by the 6th
Lift-Guard's Don Cossack battery officers, probably,
after 1909 till the end of the
period considered.
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