A steel, cupronickel, horn and leather hunting dagger with scabbard. Dager length: 17.

1cm.; width near bolster 2.3cm.; length with grip 28.6cm.; length in scabbard 32cm. Forged steel blade. Cyrillic maker"s mark "Mikh. Ptitsyn in Vorsma", date "1896" and town below barely legible "Zavialov" in Cyrillic on bolster. Ball-ended cast cupronickel guard. Horn grip. (Probably, later) cupronickel pommel. Leather-covered wood scabbard with cupronickel top mount. Russia, last quarter 19th century.