sword knot

In later times a sword knot or tassel was sometimes added.

Although they have a practical function, sword knots often had a decorative design.

The gilt hilt of regulation pattern with original sword knot.

A tassel or sword knot may be attached to the guard or pommel.

Complete with both steel and brown leather scabbards and also both sword knots.

He received his commission of Second Lieutenant, earning his "sword knot" on 15 December.

Many sword knots were also made of silk with a fine, ornamental alloy gold or silver metal wire woven into it in a specified pattern.

For these occasions, the dagger was fitted with a tassel and sword knot made of aluminum lace, similar to one used by Wehrmacht officers.

Ranks of army and air force enlisted personnel are designated by stripes, chevrons, and "sword knots" worn on rank slides.

The sword knot of the sabre was made of gold thread and consisted of a tassel and strap.

As with Western sword knots, these serve both decorative and practical functions, and the manipulation of the tassel is a part of some jian performances.

This example is distingushed from his cacciatore counterparts by a fur busby and red plume, cords, epaulettes and sword knot.

It was worn with an aluminium braid sword knot which was embellished with the SS runes in black on the stem.

NCOs are divided into those with or without a sword knot lanyard (mit / ohne Portepee).

NCOs carried this sabre with an NCO's sword knot which was made of imperial yellow and black wood.

Their baldricks, red and yellow with green highlights, are decorated with a badge, which was designed in 1976 by Sue King, representing a Chinese dragon behind a rapper sword knot.

Sword Knot operated under an Air Force contract with Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

The pommel is an inverted section of a cone bearing an eagle with arrows and palms in low relief on both sides and a scroll at the top pierced for a sword knot.

After transfer to the U.S. Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service, Sword Knot was reassigned to the Western Range and home-ported in Port Hueneme, California.

The category was a division of the NCO class, separating junior NCOs from Unteroffiziere mit Portepee, or senior NCOs (who wore the sword knot).

The sword had black scabbard, gilt mountings, and sword knot of gold lace strap with bullion tassel; it was worn on a sword belt of white web, with white cloth frog.

Below it was a dress sword with a black scabbard and sword knots of heavy bullion that would cost at least five hundred guineas from Mr Prater, the sword cutler in Charing Cross.

The following small diesel-powered ships were instrumented with tracking equipment: Sword Knot, Rose Knot, Timber Hitch, Coastal Crusader, Coastal Sentry, and Sampam Hitch.

Excellent original Ray skin grip with original wire & complete with original brass mounted leather scabbard with original bullion sword knot, black leather belt with hanging straps & anchor belt buckle.

Any Portepeeunteroffizier of the former Prussian Army was entitled to wear (in addition to the to dress uniform - to go with a ...) a "sword knot" to its personal sabre, which was originally restricted to officers only.