November 17, 2020 Early Arms & Militaria: Age of Exploration, Empire & Revolution
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/17/2020
A British mounted officer's saber, 1785-1800, with a curved, single-edged blade with spearpoint tip, double-fullered, 29-3/8" long by 1-1/2" (at ricasso); the gilded-brass, stirrup hilt with 'S' scroll in side-branch of guard, backstrap ending in flat pommel with pronounced capstan securing tang of blade; the ivory grip has spiral-grooves finished with twisted, 2-strand, copper wire wrap. CONDITION: The blade with silver-grey toning, approximately 70% of the hilt gilding intact and with a fine pressure crack in the ivory grip on the obverse side and chip at pommel on underside. JLK