Cavalry saber, Western Europe, early 19th century.

saber length in scabbard 1048 mm, saber length 962 mm, head length 825 mm, head width at base 43 mm, back thickness at base 12 mm, saber weight 1280 g, saber weight in scabbard 2530 g

Hand closed, brass binding. Sessile, triple-barreled hilt, with whiskers. Wooden shaft, cross-notched, wrapped in black leather and laced with filigree. The cap is long, with the bottom fixed with a wedge in the opening of the hilt arm, with the top riveted with the shaft of the head. No transverse rivet. Steel blade, perforated, of moderate curvature, profiled on both sides in one wide furrow. The blade is double-edged, the hilt in the line of the ridge. P o c h w a steel, solid, with two grooves and an applied flange. The spur is asymmetrical.
state of preservation: 4/4/4