Officer's saber for Bavarian light cavalry, luxurious model - Lot 24

Officer's saber for Bavarian light cavalry, luxurious model with 835 mm Damascus curved blade, flat back and wide hollow side with counter-edge at the head, Hungarian-style single-branch guard, pommel with rampant lion and hexagonal auricles, fully filigreed spindle, brass scabbard, with two wide bracelets and rings on molded studs, between the bracelets engraving of a trophy and two leafy motifs, the lower part of the scabbard finely engraved with a relief of scales, cut-out scabbard entrance for the auricles and asymmetrical steel stinger, traces of gilding on the mount, wear, oxidation on the blade, LT 1005 mm, contemporary sword from the wars of the Empire, Kingdom of Bavaria period Maximilian 1st Joseph. Expert Hervé MATOUS