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pre-Revolutionary light cavalry officer’s sabre, curved blad…
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pre-Revolutionary light cavalry officer’s sabre, curved blad…
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,000
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Description
pre-Revolutionary light cavalry officer’s sabre, curved blade with a flat back, fuller and blood groove running along the spine, identical engravings on each side depicting an ancient warrior in armour framed by two friezes; these engravings retain much of their ground gold decoration.
Blade 850 mm long, bronze mountings, a long-tailed cap, a single crossguard branch emerging from the front of the pommel and joining the crossguard at a right angle whilst thickening, two narrow symmetrical lugs with central relief, a corded wooden tang covered in havana-coloured shagreen and filigree, in its attractive brass-sheet scabbard with a worn steel point and two rings mounted on welded python skin; a slight crack at the front of the scabbard, with a remnant of a leather thong at the rear.
Condition: 1-
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