A FINE GERMAN DE-LUXE QUALITY CAVALRY OFFICER'S SABRE, CIRCA 1885-1900
with fullered blade of highly burnished steel etched with elaborate designs of scrolling foliage, involving trophies-of-war and neo-classical emblems on a gilt panel on both sides, gilt-brass hilt cast in relief, including a pair of langets decorated with crossed sabres, the quillon with lion's head terminal, the pommel en suite, celluloid grip bound with silver wire, and in its nickel-plated iron scabbard, complete with portepee.
88 cm; 34 5/8 in blade