SENIOR INFANTRY OFFICER'S SABER, First Empire. 27986
Gilded brass frame. Guard with a branch entirely decorated with palmettes, corollas of foliage and laurel branches. Short-tailed crown in the shape of a lion's head with rear part decorated with scales and cobwebs. Finely squared ebony spindle. Curved blade with hollow sides engraved and gilded on its first third with floral decorations and military trophies on a blued background, length 75 cm. Scarlet cloth tie. Black patent leather scabbard with two gilded brass fittings decorated with lines, edges cut into festoons, cap with button for wearing on the belt.
France.
First Empire.
Good condition, the frame has kept its gilding, flare with a small loss of 5 mm in the upper part, some oxidation spots on the blade which has kept all its colors, leather of the scabbard slightly peeling.
Reference :
27986