SOVIET CAVALRY SHASHKA MODEL 1927 WITH MOSIN-NAGANT BAYONET, ZLATOUST, 1934

slightly curved single-edged steel blade with a broad fuller, without guard, the brown wooden grip carved with spiral grooves, the brass ferrule and the brass pommel cap embossed with foliate decoration and pierced for the sword knot; in its black leather-covered wooden scabbard with brass mounts comprising locket, two suspension bands with ring and chape, the side fitted with brass loops holding a Mosin-Nagant M1891/30 socket bayonet with spring catch and four-sided blade Marks: in Cyrillic ‘ZLAT. OR. FABR. / 1934 G’ for the Zlatoust Arms Factory, 1934 (on the ferrule); Zlatoust factory stamp and ‘1934 G’ (on the blade); unit marks ‘13 KP / 302 / H L’ (on the ferrule, probably for the 13th Cavalry Regiment) and ‘GK 18 KR’ (?) (on the reverse of the blade); scabbard mounts stamped ‘M’ and ‘W’; bayonet with factory stamp and number ‘6’ Condition: wear and oxidation spots to the blade near the hilt, light scratches to the scabbard leather, patina to the brass mounts