A HUNGARIAN SILVER-MOUNTED SABRE with earlier slender fullered single-edged blade double-edged at the point and etched on both sides of the forte with foliage, a sun, a crescent moon, and a turbanned Turkish warrior in an oval, the hilt with brown velvet-covered wooden grip, the mounts cast and chased in low relief with rococo ornament set with turquoises and comprising straight quillons withécussons, beaked pommel and pierced back-strap in one, and engraved grip-strap, in original brown velvet-covered wooden scabbard with pierced mounts including deep locket and chape decorated en suite with the hilt, Hungarian silver marks, 19th Century

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A HUNGARIAN SILVER-MOUNTED SABRE with earlier slender fullered single-edged blade double-edged at the point and etched on both sides of the forte with foliage, a sun, a crescent moon, and a turbanned Turkish warrior in an oval, the hilt with brown velvet-covered wooden grip, the mounts cast and chased in low relief with rococo ornament set with turquoises and comprising straight quillons withécussons, beaked pommel and pierced back-strap in one, and engraved grip-strap, in original brown velvet-covered wooden scabbard with pierced mounts including deep locket and chape decorated en suite with the hilt, Hungarian silver marks, 19th Century
28½in. blade

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