This one is an older find of mine, but it is one of my favorites. I have an absolute love for anything Imperial Russian and when I saw this inside a case I just had to have it.
It was only 60 USD, not bad for Imperial Russian silver. The man I bought it from was more interested in Imperial German items, he showed me pictures of his personal collection, he even had daggers that were from Bismark!
It has a blade that can be unsheathed (also silver) and, something that seems to be rather common on silver swords, is a silver chain connecting it to a grasper (no idea if that is correct terminology :P).
The final piece on this fantastic blade is the silver hallmark! The Russian system, at the time, ran off a purity system of 96, so 96/96 would be pure silver. 84 is the most common purity and denotes .875 silver. The kokoshnik mark (a Russian headdress) was the Russian assayer mark and denotes it was made between 1896 until 1908. Fun fact: 1896 is when Tsar Nicolaus the II reformed into the new assayer symbol! This one has two assayer marks, one on the sheath and the other on the star and crescent.
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