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Minerve Enchères

229 - Luxury officer’s sabre.
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Estimate €300 - €400
Description
Luxury officer’s sabre. Horn hilt with double silver filigree, gilded brass mountings chiselled with intertwined oak and laurel leaves. Four-branch crossguard and a counterguard branch, decorated in the same style. Blade cap with a long tail, adorned with a motif featuring a family coat of arms (unidentified) in silver beneath a count’s crown. Blade with a hollow back and sides, acid-etched halfway with foliage scrolls and trophies. Sheath made of sheet iron with a single ferrule decorated with line work. Length: 104.5 cm. Presented with an officer’s sword knot featuring a tassel in gilded trimmings. BE, late 19th century.
See original version (French)
About the sale Sabres and headgear from the 19th century and the First World War
Auction location
Auction time 10/10/2026 at 11:00 AM
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