Klych Cossack Sword, Russian Empire Indian and was a Yeomanry Aide-de-camp

and was a Yeomanry Aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria's Viceroy in India

complete with its original leather scabbard

Johannesburg

The steel was lap welded and the wootz pattern is intact at the weld

Klych Cossack Sword, Russian Empire Indian and was a Yeomanry Aide-de-campA Russian Empire Nicholas II curved eastern type' Klych Cossack sword. Eastern type sabres were approved by emperor Nicholas II for wearing by Cossack officers outside of formation. They were worn by officers of the Life Guards Cossack regiment, the Life Guards Ataman regiment, the Life Guards 6th Don Cossack Battery of the Guards Horse Artillery and the Ural Hundred of the Life Guards combined Cossack regiment. This sword type was approved from 1909,