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CERTIFICATE №. RPK/B-55/4511
Series: RPK (light machine-gun)
Category: Bronze
Serial Number: RPK/B-55
Manufacture Date: 2005
Author: Tychkin Vyacheslav Alexandrovitch
Materials: steel, brass, wood, leather
Processing types: forging, bench-work, etching, nickel plating, gilding, blueing
Dimensions: 330 (220)х16 mm
Price: 1870 EUR
Description:
The dirk is made of steel, with two blades, with one short fuller. 12-cm of etching, gilding and blueing. The fuller bears M.T. Kalashnikov's signature on the blued background. The heel bears the USSR arms.
The heel's underside contains the category number « B-55». The side edges bear inscriptions «Tychkin V.A.» and «Zlatoust city 2004» (in Russian).
The hilt consists of the grip with two caps and pommel and of cross guard with cross bar.
The grip is wooden, tubby, twisted, leather-covered and interweaved with gilded wire on the grooves. The caps are octahedral. The round conic pommel is decorated with the plated Russian Federation (RF) arms. The cross guard is straight, with dilative ends, decorated with the RPK (light machine-gun) sil-houettes. The cross bar is shaped in pentagonal escutcheon, bears the « RPK » inscription.
The sheath is wooden, leather-covered, with locket, middle band and tip. The locket bears plated relief portrait featuring «М.Т.Kalashnikov» inscription (in Russian).
The middle band bears plated five-point star.
All the armature pieces are decorated with stylized plant ornament.
Author Tychkin V.A.
Director of «Praktica» close corporation V.А. Naumov
Chief Designer
of shooting arms of Russia М.Т.Kalashnikov
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