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IMPERIAL GERMAN CAVALRY SABER AND DOVEHEAD SABER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 75.00 USD
IMPERIAL GERMAN CAVALRY SABER AND DOVEHEAD SABER
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
A typical form with cast half-basket guard, the hinged counterguard with Prussian eagle and brown bakelite grip. The straight, single-edged blade fullered on either side with spear tip.In its nickeled steel scabbard.Late 19th century. Counterguard with slight bend and short crack, wear to scabbard. And an example with nickeled guard with monogram on the langet, GB. The lightly-curved, fullered blade marked at the forte, F.W. HOLLER SOLINGEN. In its black painted steel scabbard. Early 20th century. Guard broken, scabbard rubbed. Overall length of the longest 108.3 cm. Condition III