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The blade is steel, slightly curved,
single-edged, featuring one wide fuller. The hilt comprises a
grip with pommel and a guard. The grip is wood, covered in
leather, crossed by transverse grooves, bound in the grooves with
twisted wire. The guard is a four-facet cross-guard piece
transformed at a right angle into a knuckle bow, joined at its
upper end with a pommel.
Upon the cross-guard's middle outside part an
oval langet rides, embossed with an "A1" cypher
beneath a crown.
The scabbard is leather, no metal mount. The
scabbard's upper part features a metal hook for suspension in the
belt's frog.
Overall length is about 920 mm, the blade's
length is about 790 mm, the blade's width - about 30 mm, mass -
circa 1200 gr.
The sword was carried as regulation weapon by
the officers of the imperial militia battalion since 1806 (the
battalion's formation) through 1811 (renamed the Life Guard's
Finland regiment) was later replaced by the infantry sword.
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