Military

All Japanese officers in 20th-century wartime Japan were required to wear a sword as a badge of rank. Though traditional swordsmiths made exquisite blades for the highest officers, there was no way they could meet the massive demand required by the military. These katana-like blades are called ‘’Shin Gunto’’ which means ‘’new military sword’’. They existed alongside the older ‘’Kyu Gunto’’ sabres that were in emulation of western-style swords. Though more traditional in appearance, the popularity of the Shin Gunto was a later arrival and it greatly increased in popularity from the 1930s through WWII as the Japanese nationalism sought inspiration from their samurai past.

This replica of a Japanese Officer’s Shin Gunto sword has a tempered blade of high carbon steel; the habaki, tsuba and hilt fittings are brass, the seppa is copper and the grip is wood with a leather cord grip wrap. The sword features a simple locking mechanism to keep the sword locked into its scabbard. The sword is paired with a steel scabbard with a brass hanging ring. While many Shin Gunto had mass-produced grips of cast metal, this reproduction replicates the higher quality Shin Gunto with finer fittings and grips with genuine cord wrap.

Overall: 95cm
Blade Length: 66cm
Handle Length: 25cm
Blade Thickness: 5.6mm
POB: 13cm
Weight: 1.6kg
Blade Steel: EN9 High Carbon Steel 
Blade Edge: Blunt 

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

This reproduction of a Russo-Japanese Kyu Gunto military saber has a blade of tempered high carbon steel which is durably mounted into a hilt of brass with a leather-bound wooden grip. Bands of copper wire inlay and a button-activated locking mechanism that secures the hilt to the scabbard. Included is a steel scabbard with a steel hanging ring.

Overall: 81cm
Blade Length: 65cm
Blade Thickness: 5mm - 6.2mm
Weight: 907g
Blade Steel: EN9 High Carbon Steel
Blade Edge: Blunt

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

The shashka originated among the mountain tribes of the Caucasus in the 12th or 13th century. Later most of the Russian Cossacks adopted the weapon. It gradually replaced the sabre in all cavalry units except hussars during the 19th century. Russian troops, having encountered it during their conquest of the Caucasus (1817-1864), preferred it to their issue sabres.

The Russian Caucasian Corps first adopted it in the 1830s. In 1882 a reorganization of the cavalry saw the regular dragoons armed with the shashka. Cossacks had received this type of sword earlier. Soviet cavalry carried several forms of shashka in the Second World War. Our shashka is forged from high quality EN9 steel and the polished blade is well tempered.

Total length: 95 cm
Blade length: 81 cm
Grip length: 7 cm
Weight: 0.950 kg
Blade thickness (base): 6.3 mm
Blade thickness (CoP): 6 mm
Blade width (base): 3.1 cm
Blade width (CoP): 2.8 cm
Point of Balance (PoB): 24 cm
Centre of Percussion (CoP): 21 cm
Blade: High Carbon Steel
Edge: Blunt
Pommel: Peened
Scabbard: Leather, Wood, Brass

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

This replica saber of the AN XI has an unsharpened blade of tempered high carbon steel. The spine of the blade bears the recreated 1813 signature of the famed Klingenthal sword manufactory in Alsace. The hilt is of brass and the grip is wrapped in tight black leather. The scabbard is of steel with two integrated steel hanging rings. 

Total length: 100cm
Blade length: 86.5cm
Grip length: 10cm
Weight: 1068g
Blade thickness (base): 0.7cm 
Blade width (base): 3cm
Point of Balance (PoB): 19.5cm
Blade: EN9 High Carbon Steel
Edge: Blunt
Pommel: Peened
Scabbard: Leather, Wood, Steel

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

Adept scouts and light cavalrymen, Napoleons Hussars could be counted upon to fight with speed and severity wherever they were deployed. Their attitude and fighting style derived from the original Hussars of Hungary and Poland in centuries past who perfected light cavalry tactics in their conflicts with the Turks. Their successes inspired a type of light cavalryman who could be seen in many European armies by the Napoleonic era, all following a rough outline of Hungarian-inspired dress, large moustaches, cavalier demeanor and arms.

Understandably, the public romanticized the dashing, exotic image of the charging Hussar. This French Hussar saber is similar to other Hussar and cavalry sabers of the period who share a common ancestor in the Polish-Hungarian Szabla. After centuries of mounted warfare, the Szabla became the Hussar saber, ideally evolved for light cavalry combat. Its characteristic curve allowed for deathly sweeping slashes from on high. Its design highly influenced the British 1796 Light Cavalry Saber – a design destined to spread throughout the continent and to the United States.

Overall Length: 100cm
Blade Length: 84cm
Grip Length: 11cm
Weight: 975g
Edge: Blunt
Width: 32.8mm
Thickness: 7.4 - 4.2mm
Pommel: Peened
POB: 20.3cm
Blade: EN9 High Carbon Steel
Scabbard: Leather, Steel

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

As the inscription the blade and the prominent anchor on the hilt attest, this sword with a wide, cutlass-like blade is a sword for a member of Napoleons Imperial Guard Marines – the Marins de la Garde Imperiale (Sailors of the Imperial Guard).

The replica sword has blade is of tempered EN9 high carbon steel and is inscribed on both sides with an anchor framed placard of the Garde Imperiale. The base of the blade spine bears the signature of the famed Klingenthal manufactory, which produced a great many of the blades borne by Napoleons Grande Arm.

The hilt with a knuckle bar is of brass and the grip is of black leather, inlaid with twisted wire of brass. The sword scabbard is of leather with brass fittings, including two brass hanging rings.

Total length: 85cm
Blade length: 72cm
Grip length: 8cm
Guard width: 8cm
Weight: 1048g
Blade thickness (base): 0.7cm 
Blade width (base): 4cm
Point of Balance (PoB): 27cm
Blade: High Carbon Steel
Edge: Blunt
Pommel: Peened
Scabbard: Leather, Wood, Steel

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

This sword is very popular with people studying cutlass drills and was carried by most of the French Infantry throughout the Napoleonic Wars. It is also very popular for opening champagne bottles!

The polished blade has been forged from EN9 steel and has been well tempered.

Total length: 74 cm
Blade length: 60 cm
Grip length: 10 cm
Weight: 1.012 kg
Blade thickness (base): 7.2 mm 
Blade width (base): 3.4 cm
Point of Balance (PoB): 11 cm
Blade: High Carbon Steel
Edge: Blunt
Pommel: Peened
Scabbard: Leather, Wood, Brass

All dimensions are approximate and may vary from piece to piece.

This replica scabbard is crafted from steel and fits our British Light Cavalry Sabre - 1796 Pattern US-S-133. 

Please note: These replacement scabbards are designed to fit our replica swords. Antique swords come in a variety of shapes and sizes and there is no guarantee that our replica scabbards will fit them.

This replica scabbard is crafted from steel with an Osborn and Co stamp and fits our British Heavy Cavalry Sword - 1796 Pattern US-S-134.

Please note: These replacement scabbards are designed to fit our replica swords. Antique swords come in a variety of shapes and sizes and there is no guarantee that our replica scabbards will fit them.