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Infantry Officer's SABER, Model 1882
France, Third Republic
Steel, nickel silver, horn, brass
Overall length: 97 cm; Barrel length: 84.5 cm
Nickel silver mount with remnants of nickel plating.
Cap with a long spoon-shaped tang, topped with three discs of decreasing diameter.
Buffalo horn foregrip, filigree with twisted brass wire.
Rounded knuckle, pierced with an eyelet on the upper part.
Three secondary branches.
Oval plate ending with a curved, drop-shaped quillon.
Straight, double-edged blade with grooves, marked "Manufacture Nationale d'armes de Châtellerault gbre 1925 Offer d'Infre Mle 1882" and acid-etched with scrolls on each side; Signed "À HELIOT ANDRÉ" on one side and "PROMO LA ST CYRIENNE" on the other; hallmarks.
Leather tie.
Steel scabbard with remnants of nickel plating on one bail ring.
Ref.: 6069
Text and photos © FCP CORIDON
Ref: FM1DLKN531