blued iron fittings
leather scabbard with iron blued fittings
strong blade stamped by its maker Schaaf § sons in St. Petersburg with tsarist eagle.
( Nicolaus Schaaf was a German knife maker from Solingen, who came to Russia in 1820 to work in Zlatoust. After , he moved to St Petersbugh to open his proper bussines in knife making with his son; He was one of the best knife makers and sold many items to the Tsarist family , many officers of the russian army and people of nobility . Many pieces of Schaaf are in Russian museum collections °
wooden checkered grip
modern design around turn of the century;