"Hussar Sabre - France - Circa 1790"
Hussar SABREFrance
Circa 1790
Steel, brass, sheepskin, copper
Total length: 97.9 cm; Blade length: 85 cm
Brass mountings.
Flat, spoon-shaped pommel with long tail.
Sheepskin-covered tang, filigree work with twelve twists of copper wire.
Curved joint.
Oblong guard ending in a rounded point.
Rectangular lugs.
Blade with one cutting edge and one counter-cutting edge, chiselled with letters and numbers in curvilinear capitals on each side, a sun, a hussar, a polar star and a moon.
Leather sheath, silver-plated brass chape and ferrule decorated with lines, lyre-shaped tip.
Two ring loops.
Ref.: 6348
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