3rd Dec, 2014 10:00
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria
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A GERMAN LIGHT CAVALRY SABRE
A GERMAN LIGHT CAVALRY SABRE, AND ANOTHER, OF IDENTICAL PATTERN, EACH LATE 18TH CENTURY
each with curved blade double-edged towards the point and cut with a broad full-length fuller, the outer face etched with a princely cipher formed of the addorsed letters CC beneath a fürstenhut and enclosed by the inscriptions "Vivat" and "D.H.L", brass stirrup-hilt including quillon with cushion finial, and original leather-covered grip bound with wire (the knuckle-guards each with early soldered repair, the double langets incomplete on each hilt), each in its original leather-covered wooden scabbard with matching large brass mounts, one retaining its original leather-hung buckles for suspension straps (the chapes each extensively dented)
80.5 cm; 31½ in blades
(2)
The inscription "D.H.L." is possibly the abbreviation of "Dragoner Hohenlohe Langenburg"
Sold for £3,200
A GERMAN LIGHT CAVALRY SABRE, AND ANOTHER, OF IDENTICAL PATTERN, EACH LATE 18TH CENTURY
each with curved blade double-edged towards the point and cut with a broad full-length fuller, the outer face etched with a princely cipher formed of the addorsed letters CC beneath a fürstenhut and enclosed by the inscriptions "Vivat" and "D.H.L", brass stirrup-hilt including quillon with cushion finial, and original leather-covered grip bound with wire (the knuckle-guards each with early soldered repair, the double langets incomplete on each hilt), each in its original leather-covered wooden scabbard with matching large brass mounts, one retaining its original leather-hung buckles for suspension straps (the chapes each extensively dented)
80.5 cm; 31½ in blades
(2)
The inscription "D.H.L." is possibly the abbreviation of "Dragoner Hohenlohe Langenburg"
Auction: Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 3rd Dec, 2014
