A hussar officer's sabre,South German/Austrian ,slender but strong blade à la Montmorency(lightly cleaned).The lower quarter richly etched,depicting a sun and moon above a Turk within a knuckle-bow hilt worked in relief with an angel's head on the cross-piece,the grip strap with wavy edges and rocaille ornaments terminating in a pommel cap shaped as a lion's grip retaining its original leathering and rivets with brass 104 is the locket,decorated en suite(soldering defective).Proven,Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available

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