Museum Collections

Sword with straight, double-edged steel blade with etched designs with light gilding on obverse and reverse (edges are very blunt); gilded brass hilt with grip covered in charcoal gray fish skin and wrapped with twisted wire; counter-guard consisting of two shell-shaped pieces, a fixed piece with molded eagle and banners on the obverse side and an undecorated hinged piece, which may be lowered when a button underneath is depressed, on the reverse; knuckle-bow, which is molded on either side with thunderbolts centering a flower, has branch on obverse side joining counter-guard and hole pierced for sword knot near juncture with pommel; short quillon with oval button finial; pommel in the form of a section of an inverted cone with an eagle molded on obverse side and a blank shield on the reverse; gilded brass scabbard with upper band with two carrying rings, middle band with one carrying ring, and tip with symmetrical drag with crossed flags molded on obverse side and a single star on the reverse.