LIGHT CAVALRY OFFICER'S SABER, First Empire modified Restoration. 28176
Brass frame. Guard at a branch. Ogive-shaped cruise. Short-tailed crown with so-called “melon rib” pommel. Finely squared wooden handle. Curved white blade with hollow sides and gutters, length 84.6 cm, acid-engraved and polished on its first third with gold background of corollas of foliage with shield, lance and bundle of flags on one side; and on the other side, identically, the beam is replaced by a weapons trophy. Scarlet cloth tie. Brass scabbard with three sides at the front, with protruding bowl, bail bracelets framed with flat moldings decorated with nets, just like the bail eyebolts, steel dart.
France.
First Empire modified Restoration.
Very good condition, blade changed during the Restoration having kept all its colors.
Reference :
28176