SABRETACHE AND GREAT DRESS BELT OF A HORSE ARTILLERY COLONEL OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD, model 1854, Second Empire. 29141
Leather sabretache, tab covered with dark blue cloth and bordered with a 2.7 cm wide gold braid and a second 1 cm wide braid. The center is decorated with a gilded brass plaque embossed with the crowned imperial eagle surmounting two crossed cannons. H of the plate 14.5 cm, width 14 cm. A gold braid is folded astride the outer edges. Interior lining in black waxed leather with pocket lined in blue velvet. H 28.5 cm (without rings), width 26 cm.
Black patent leather belt (small outfit). 3.2 cm wide belt in four parts linked together by trapezoidal gold-plated brass buckles with rectangular-shaped tightening buckle. Two suspension straps for the saber and three suspension straps for the full-length sabretache in leather covered with gold braid, all finished with oval buckles in gilded brass.
France.
Second Empire.
Good condition, missing a braid from one of the straps.
Reference :
29141