A GERMAN CAVALRY OFFICER'S SABRE, CIRCA 1900 with slender fullered blade etched with foliage over the lower portion, gilt-bass hilt cast in relief, including down-turned quillon with lionhead terminal, langet with a warrior mask on the front and engraved with the owner's coat-of-arms on the reverse, back-strap decorated with foliage rising to a lionhead pommel, and original fishskin-covered grip, in its scabbard 36cm; 33 3/4in blade