1821-type infantry officer’s saber, likely intended for expo - Lot 224

Lot n° 224
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1821-type infantry officer’s saber, likely intended for expo - Lot 224
1821-type infantry officer’s saber, likely intended for export to the United States, with a chiseled and gilded brass guard typical of the model, and a leather-wrapped, filigree-decorated tang; foreign-made Damascus steel blade, slightly curved, with a small hollow-ground section across half its width, engraved, blued, and gilded one-third of the way up, featuring two areas decorated with etched foliage, flowers, and trophies, in one of the blued sections, a shield with fifteen stars at the top and vertical striations below, signed on the heel: “Warranted”; leather scabbard, two gilded brass fittings; length 87 cm. Date: circa 1830–1840. Very good condition.
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