A GERMAN SABRE with curved single-edged hollow-ground blade with single fuller along the back-edge on both sides, and etched and partly gilt with foliage, a moon, stars and a trophy of arms on both sides at the forte, mameluke hilt with gilt-brass quillons with stylised acorn terminals, and langets cast and chased with scrolling foliage in low relief, horn grip-scales shaped for the fingers and retained by rosette-headed rivets, and gilt chain knuckle-guard, in original wooden scabbard partly covered with leather, and with deep locket and chape each carrying a suspension ring and embossed and chased with designs of conventional foliage involving a tropy of arms on the front of the chape, early 19th Century