Cavalry officer's saber, France, wz. AN IX

saber length in scabbard 1003 mm, saber length 963 mm, head length 827 mm, head width at base 32 mm, back thickness at base 9.5 mm, saber weight 765 g, saber weight in scabbard 1420 g

Hand closed, brass binding. Sessile, triple-barreled hilt, with whiskers. Wooden shaft, cross-grooved and covered with black leather. A long cap with the bottom attached with a wedge to a hole in the rear arm of the hilt, with the top riveted on an oval pad with the shaft of the head. The handle is connected to the headstock by a single solid rivet with brass olive-shaped heads. The head is polished steel with moderate curvature. Profiled on both sides in a single, wide furrow, reaching a double-edged pen. The hilt of the blade is adventitious. P o c h w a s steel, polished, with two barbs with movable butt-pieces on the back. Neck fixed in the scabbard sheath by a screw. The spur is asymmetrical.
state of preservation: 4/4/4