Hungarian Hussar Senior Officer's Sabre

80 cm blade, 4.5 cm wide at the heel, with a flat back and a hollow side. It ends with a superb bevel, the point in the back of the blade. It is engraved with "FRINGIA" on one side and a sunflower flower, a crescent moon with a human face, a sun with a human face and again a stylized sunflower flower. The sunflower flower being one of the strong symbols of the Hussars. Handle is made of wood, covered with black leather. In its middle we find a rivet button holding the silk decorated with a stylized sunflower flower. Guard is made of a single pearl branch (typically French). The baguette earpieces are decorated with a line. The long-tailed cap is decorated on the top. Exceptional gadroon scabbard, in leather with three embossed red copper fittings reproducing rocaille style decorations. The fittings are connected together by brass splints cut in lace and decorated with a line. Small incidents. Sabres of this type from this period have scabbards with brass fittings, sometimes in steel and more rarely in copper as is the case here. By tradition, the senior officers of the hussars have a sabre with a curved blade of various origins and very often family. SALE BY CANDLELIGHT